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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   Democracy vs. Republic -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Democracy and Republic.

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1. Heiko Maas:

   The agreement we negotiated with Britain is already a compromise - especially regarding the arrangements for Northern Ireland, there must not be a hard border to the Republic of Ireland... We cannot risk the Northern Ireland conflict flaring up again.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   Given the strong link between illegal wildlife sold in wet markets and zoonotic diseases, the United States has called on the Peoples Republic of China to permanently close its wildlife wet markets and all markets that sell illegal wildlife. I call on all ASEAN governments to do the same.

3. Guenther Schabowski:

   Therefore... um... we have decided today... um... to implement a regulation that allows every citizen of the German Democratic Republic... um... to... um... leave East Germany through any of the border crossings.

4. Tolbert Nyenswah:

   There are no cases in the ETUs (Ebola Treatment Units) in the entire Republic of Liberia.

5. Nicholas Dungan:

   It is neither good for Macron's image nor for Emmanuel Macron effectiveness to be too close to Donald Trump -- he should exercise the influence, not advertise it, emmanuel Macron is the President of the French Republic -- Emmanuel Macron wants to make France great again — Emmanuel Macron can not do that if Donald Trump opposes Donald Trump. Emmanuel Macron can only do it if Donald Trump either supports Donald Trump or stands aside or gets distracted by something else.