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commonwealth
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Noun
  • a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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