Republic

1a(1)a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
(2)a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government
b(1)a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law
(2)a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government
ca usually specified republican government of a political unitthe French Fourth Republic
2a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activitythe republic of letters
3a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., or Yugoslavia

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