republic
re.pub.lic \ri-'p*b-lik\ n [F re`publique, fr. MF republique, fr. L
respublica, fr. ]res thing, wealth + publica, fem. of publicus public -
more at REAL, PUBLIC 1a1: a government having a chief of state who is not a
monarch and who in m odern times is usu. a president 1a2: a nation or other
political unit having such a form of government 1b1: a government in which
supreme power resides in a body of citizens enti tled to vote and is
exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and
governing according to law 1b2: a nation or other political unit having
such a form of government 1c: a usu. specified republican government of a
political unit {the Frenc h Fourth Republic} 2: a body of persons freely
engaged in a specified activity 3: a constituent political and territorial
unit of the U.S.S.R. or Yugoslav ia