Republican Party
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- proper noun
- /rɪˈpʌblɪkən ˈpɑrti/
- The Republican Party advocates for limited government and lower taxes in its policy proposals.
- Democratic and Republican parties
- Republican Party presidential candidate
- the Republican Party's right wing
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is very, very strong indeed.
- I mean, Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is very, very strong indeed.
- This has nothing to do with the Republican Party in the United States.
- We have one final member of the Republican Party.
- What he wants to say is the Republican Party is for no new slave territories.
- And look, I think I mean put this is not your father's Republican Party.
- But I've seen this movement of the Republican Party to the right, and it has two factors.
- I think that that's the the best way of defeating this is to make the Republican Party pay a price for that strategy.
- I don't mean politics in the Democratic Party versus Republican Party sense.
- There is a kind of trendy benightedness that exists within some elements of the Republican Party.
- And I've watched the Republican Party harden against climate so firmly that we'll see.
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I mean, Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is very, very strong indeed.
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Are you tired of the Republican Party?
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It's become more clearly a Republican Party platform issue as well.
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This has nothing to do with the Republican Party in the United States.
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I think the Republican party is saying that.
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Well, well, let me just say the Republican Party is incredibly united right now.
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Ultimately, he lost both public support and the backing of the right wing of the Republican Party.
Academic text (1990) -
Ronald Reagan was elected president, and the Republican Party dropped equal rights from its platform.
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All that anti-immigrant talk made us feel that the Republican Party did not respect us.
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What you've now got is a leader of the Republican Party in place as an opposition leader.
Synonyms
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An organized group of people with the same political aims who try to win power
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A nickname for the Republican Party in the United States
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A group of people with the same political ideas who try to win elections
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People who support the Republican Party in the United States
An insulting name for the Republican Party in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — the political party associated with Republicans — is directly compositional from 'Republican' (relating to Republicans) + 'party' (an organized political group). This noun-noun naming pattern for political parties is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'Partido Republicano'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name Republican Party comes from the word republican, which meant a 'republic' or a government run by the people, not a king. When the group formed in the 1850s, they chose that name to show those ideas, so today Republican Party refers to the U.S. political party that grew from that choice.