I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Labour/Republican etc politician
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Her mother was a Labour politician.
a Labour/Republican etc seat (= one that a particular party usually wins )
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Middlesbrough is one of the safest Labour seats in the country.
a Republican/Democratic/Labour etc candidate
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This part of Florida usually supports Republican candidates.
the Nationalist/Republican etc cause (= their aims and organization )
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The election results were a serious blow to the Nationalist cause.
the Republican/Democratic etc nomination (= the nomination to be the candidate for a political party in an election )
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Feinstein beat Van de Kamp for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A repeated jeer of the author's is that republicans look down on the masses they purport to represent.
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But in the context of the jail, republicans considered them symbolic and provocative and, therefore, they could create trouble.
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Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
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Is it worthy of that manly fortitude that ought to characterize republicans?
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The central committee would elect its president from its ranks, but each time from a different republican or provincial party.
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What was the political point being made in presenting the father, Moran, as a disillusioned republican ?
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Casey was arrested at his father-in-law's home on Strabane's fiercely republican Ballycolman estate.
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He was an example of the contradictory crosscurrents of nationalist and republican politics in this period.
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In a kind of republican primogeniture, autocratic leaders groom their sons to succeed them.
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Indeed, political activity at a variety of levels showed signs of breaking out of the loyalist versus republican deadlock.
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It is clear, however, that important innovations were being made in republican political activity.
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It was released for consideration by republican parliaments.
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Of the republican budget 2.8 percent was voted for military expenditure.