Republic vs Union - What's the difference?
republic | union |
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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(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.
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, title= (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.
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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
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Alternative forms
* republick (obsolete) * republique (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maritime republic * republican * republicanismSee also
* commonwealth * (wikipedia "republic")External links
* * *union
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Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- 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 […].