Synonyms for republic
rɪˈpʌb lɪkre·pub·lic

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1. democracy, republic, commonwealthnoun

   a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

   Synonyms:
   nation, majority rule, country, state, body politic, res publica, commonwealth, land, democracy

2. republicnoun

   a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch

   "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

   Synonyms:
   democracy, commonwealth

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1. • Political System

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1. republicnoun

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, popular government, representative government

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1. List of paraphrases for "republic":

   république, republika, república, repubblica, srpska, republics, köztársaság, republike, republik, republican, republiky, democracy

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1. Mike Pompeo:

   These were attacks by The Islamic Republic of Iran on commercial shipping, on the freedom of navigation, with a clear intent to deny transit through the Strait [ of Hormuz ], the intelligence community has lots of data, lots of evidence -- the world will come to see much of it. But the American people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who conducted these attacks as well as half a dozen other attacks throughout the world over the past 40 days.

2. Ben Rhodes:

   It took us by some surprise, there's a great affinity between the United States and India and our people, but there's also a history that is complicated and that would have made it seem highly unlikely that a U.S. president would be sitting with India's leaders at their Republic Day ceremony.

3. Maghsoud Asadi Samani:

   A representative from Boeing held discussions with the airline of the Islamic Republic and other Iranian airlines for two days.

4. Nicolas Maduro:

   We don't accept ultimatums from anyone, it's as if I went to the The European Union and said,' I give you seven days to recognize the republic of Catalonia or if not, we will take measures.' No, no. International politics can not base itself on ultimatums. That is the epoch of imperialism or colonies.

5. The JIT:

   The indications for close ties between leaders of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and Russian government officials raise questions about their possible involvement in the deployment of the (missile), which brought down flight MH17 on 17 July 2014.