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Republic vs Union - What's the difference?

republic | union |

As nouns the difference between republic and union

is that republic is a state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy while union is the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

republic

English

Alternative forms

* republick (obsolete) * republique (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
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  • *
  • *:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
  • (lb) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
  • *1795 , (Immanuel Kant),
  • *:Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.. None of the ancient so-called "republics " knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
  • One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
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  • Derived terms

    * maritime republic * republican * republicanism

    See also

    * commonwealth * (wikipedia "republic")

    union

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
  • (uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
  • (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
  • (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
  • (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
  • (countable) The act or state of marriage.
  • (uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
  • (countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
  • A large, high-quality pearl.
  • *, II.3.3:
  • Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].

    Synonyms

    * junction, coalition, combination

    Derived terms

    * banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet Union

    See also

    * intersection * (Webster 1913)

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