democratic : Idioms & Phrases

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  • noun a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
    Algerie; Algeria.
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democratic front for the liberation of palestine

  • noun a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
    DFLP; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PDFLP.
    • in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
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democratic party

  • noun the older of two major political parties in the United States
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democratic people's republic of korea

  • noun a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
    North Korea; D.P.R.K.; DPRK.
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democratic republic of sao tome and principe

  • noun island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves
    St. Thomas and Principe; Sao Thome e Principe; Sao Tome e Principe; Sao Tome and Principe.
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democratic republic of the congo

  • noun a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
    Zaire; Congo; Belgian Congo.
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democratic socialist republic of sri lanka

  • noun a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
    Sri Lanka; Ceylon.
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democratic-republican party

  • noun a former major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; opposed the old Federalist party; favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government
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federal democratic republic of ethiopia

  • noun Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
    Ethiopia; Abyssinia; Yaltopya.
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german democratic republic

  • noun a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990
    East Germany.
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lao people's democratic republic

  • noun a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
    Laos.
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party of democratic kampuchea

  • noun a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
    Communist Party of Kampuchea; KR; Khmer Rouge.
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  • noun a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
    DFLP; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PDFLP.
    • in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren
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social democratic party

  • noun a political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late 19th century; originally Marxist; now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism
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states' rights democratic party

  • noun a former political party in the United States; formed in 1948 by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman
    Dixiecrats.
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The Democratic party

  • the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.
Webster 1913