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, republic, 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. 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. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

2. Le Drian:

   The situation in Middle East is explosive, violence is doing the talking, war could loom, the president of the republic has decided to take all necessary political initiatives.

3. Dmitry Peskov:

   We're not imposing any embargo, . These (restrictions) are introduced due to an increasing danger from various manifestations of extremism. Of course, additional control measures are taken. This is rather natural, especially taking into account the unpredictable actions of the Republic of Turkey.

4. Philip Kinisu:

   Six hundred billion shillings can finance the bulk of the government's recurrent expenditure so that the services can reach all corners of the republic.

5. William Barr:

   The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.