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commonwealth [n]

1)	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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province commonwealth_of_puerto_rico

2)	a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

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body_politic country land nation res_publica state

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political_unit dominion estate reich renegade_state suzerain sea_power great_power city_state ally

3)	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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global_organization british_commonwealth

4)	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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democracy republic

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form_of_government democratise democratise autarchy weimar_republic parliamentary_democracy

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