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commonwealth | the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | |
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commonwealth | a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | |
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republic, democracy, commonwealth | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | |
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country, nation, state, commonwealth, land, res publica, body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government |