republic
英 [rɪ'pʌblɪk]
美[rɪ'pʌblɪk]
	    - n. 共和国;共和政体
 
英英释意
- 1. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
 
- 2. a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch;
 - "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"