{
    "term": "republic",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a country that is governed by a president and politicians elected by the people and where there is no king or queen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "newly independent republics"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mary McAleese has been the President of the Republic of Ireland since 1997."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have declared themselves an independent democratic republic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a constitutional republic based on the principles of democracy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the People's Republic of China"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the breakaway republics of the former Soviet empire"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the former Yugoslav republics"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the year that Guyana became a socialist republic"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There have been protests in the former Soviet republic of Georgia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were several small autonomous republics within the Russian Federation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There will be elections in the Czech Republic next month."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["new", "young", "former"],
                "verb + republic": ["become", "build", "create"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpʌblɪk/",
                "audio": "re/republic/republic__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpʌblɪk/",
                "audio": "re/republic/republic__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French république, from Latin respublica, from res ‘concern’ + publicus ‘of the people, public’."
}