republican
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Is republican a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.Examples: "There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now."; "But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf."; "Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah both confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers will have a series of video meetings starting in the next several days to see if they could agree on a deal soon."US
noun (English)
1. (US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.Examples: "Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it! When did you become a Republican."; "At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped. Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two are." Gore: "I think the real difference between Governor Bush and I is that he is in fact a Republican, and I am currently a Democrat." Moderator: "That doesn’t really answer the question, I am talking about issues." Bush: "No, he is right. I am a Republican, and he is a Democrat.""; "The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi."Synonyms: Republicunt, Retardican, Rethuglican, FascistUS
2. (British, Ireland) An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland.BritishIreland
3. (chiefly Ireland, now rare) A member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland.Examples: "It was confident both that the Republicans would never put it out to put Cosgrave in, and that Fine Gael was equally against the Republicans."Irelandarchaic
4. (historical) A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.historical
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