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Republican

Republican

3.6
Relating to the Republican Party in the United States
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈpʌblɪkən/
  • US
translation icon : republicano
  • After Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Mr. Nelson started taking his positions seriously.
  • Republican Party
  • a Republican candidate
  • the Republican vote

And so we'll just show you guys exactly what Republican policies do.

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Examples

  • We have some wealthy counties up here that are Republican voting as well.

  • If you want to vote in the Republican primary.

  • And so he ran as a Republican and he lost.

  • For sure the Republican bill is a terrible option.

  • So you should be able to maintain that Republican seat.

  • I grew up in a largely Republican place.

  • Who would you most like to be see be the Republican candidate for vice president?

  • I have full confidence in Mr Mitchell... and in the people in the Republican organisation.

  • Ronald Reagan was elected president, and the Republican Party dropped equal rights from its platform.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In the upcoming election, the Republican Party is focusing on economic reform to attract new voters.

Compounds

A major political party in the United States that supports conservative policies

A person running for office for the Republican Party

A special military unit that protected the Iraqi government in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein

A group of people who use violence to try to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite Ireland

A person who strongly supports the Republican Party

A major United States political party in the early 1800s that wanted limits on national government power

A group that uses violence to oppose the Northern Ireland peace process

An armed group that split from the Provisional IRA in 1997 and uses violence against the Northern Ireland peace process

An armed Irish group that used violence to end British rule in Northern Ireland

A small armed Irish group that uses bombs and guns to oppose peace talks

A river in the central United States flowing from eastern Colorado through Nebraska into Kansas to join the Kansas River

How Republican

Republican
  • US
3.6
neutral
218 3.6

Surface Forms

Republican positive

Morphology

Republican = republic (semi-transparent) = republic + an

The adjective is formed regularly from 'republic' + '-an', but in contemporary US usage it specifically denotes relation to the Republican Party, which is a conventionalized sense.

Etymology

The adjective Republican comes from the same root as republic, so it means 'relating to' or 'belonging to' the Republican Party or to the idea of a republic; that's why we say 'Republican' laws or 'Republican' leaders.