people's republic

plural people's republics · alternative People's Republic

1. Self-designation of a state with a Marxist-Leninist government.

   The Front’s aim is to create a new republic, a true people’s republic.

   2018 December 30, Jyoti Rahman, “A people’s republic”, in Dhaka Times

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   The Ukrainian People’s Republic brings the following to the knowledge of all belligerents: The Central Rada, on Nov. 20, proclaimed a People’s Republic

   1918, New York Times, Current History, volume VII, page 289

   Some China experts argue that the internal difficulties of the People’s Republic in the foreseeable future would prevent it from taking military attack against Taiwan.

   1977, Hungdah Chiu, Normalization of Relations with the People's Republic of China (U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs), page 218

2. capitalizedhumoroususuallyA particular area with strong, left-leaning tendencies, especially one with a certain level of autonomy.

   Boulder is one of the few places in the country where you don’t pull weeds out of your garden — you mix them into your brownies. You gotta love a city that everyone refers to as, “The People’s Republic of Boulder.”

   2015, “In Boulder, the People’s Republic revisted”, in The Denver Post

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   Remember, this study was conducted in Massachusetts, in the politically liberal climate of the “People's Republic of Cambridge,” where parents strive almost as hard to create racially nonbiased behavior in their children as they do to get them into the proper school.

   2013, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People, page 133

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see people, 's, republic.

   Synonyms: popular republic, national republic

plural People's Republics

1. Alternative letter-case form of people's republic.

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of the People's Republic of China: a country in East Asia.

   While he was reticent to speak up at my request, a number of his former colleagues made themselves helpful, particularly in making me aware of the nominee’s previously published work laying out a plan for the U.S. to abandon its allegiance to Taiwan in favor of the People’s Republic.

   2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229

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   One of these report^([sic – meaning reports]) states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, and nine marshals of the People’s Republic.

   2012 [1998 April 12], Jiang Zemin, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109

   In a windswept location in the Mu Us Desert (Ordos Desert), Youyu County of Shanxi Province is a barren land battered by sandstorms and with minimal natural resources. In the early days of the People’s Republic, the county’s first Party secretary led the people to initiate an afforestation project to curb encroachment by the sand.

   2018, Xi Jinping, The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159