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 commonwealth ['kɔmənwelθ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 共和国,联邦

  1. The Commonwealth agreed to make a compact with this country.
    英联邦同意和这个国家订约。
  2. The official report of the proceedings and debates of a legislature in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially of the British or Canadian parliament.
    英国议会议事录在不列颠联邦内产生的立法争论和议事进程的官方报告，尤指英国或加拿大议会


commonwealth
[ noun ]
  1. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

    2. <noun.location>
  2. a politically organized body of people under a single government

    3. <noun.group>
    the state has elected a new president
    African nations
    students who had come to the nation's capitol
    the country's largest manufacturer
    an industrialized land
  3. a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

    4. <noun.group>
  4. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

    5. <noun.group>


Commonwealth \Com"mon*wealth`\ (?; 277), n. [Common + wealth
well-being.]
1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of
men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form
of government and system of laws.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary
commonwealth. --Milton.

Note: This term is applied to governments which are
considered as free or popular, but rarely, or
improperly, to an absolute government. The word
signifies, strictly, the common well-being or
happiness; and hence, a form of government in which the
general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of
any class.

2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.

3. (Eng. Hist.) Specifically, the form of government
established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which
existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending
with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Syn: State; realm; republic.

  1. Entry is easier from the commonwealth because Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and have American passports.
  2. The sentence reduction was unusual but within the judge's authority, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Kathleen M. Edge. "The commonwealth obviously would have preferred the full jury verdict," she said.
  3. But the next occupant of the White House could help determine whether this Caribbean island remains a U.S. commonwealth or becomes the 51st state.
  4. If the commonwealth of independent states grows to the size of the former Soviet Union, the Ukraine might quit, Galina Starovoitova, Mr. Yeltsin's adviser on ethnic issues told the Tass news agency.
  5. They should be running themselves: we do not have any desire to run those countries. What about a Turkic commonwealth, an economic commonwealth? Not for the time being.
  6. They should be running themselves: we do not have any desire to run those countries. What about a Turkic commonwealth, an economic commonwealth? Not for the time being.
  7. The commonwealth army, increasingly caught up in ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union, appeared to have struck a deal for the release of 10 officers held hostage by Armenian militants.
  8. The court, without comment, left intact a ruling that the commonwealth's belated efforts to ease the problem are not reason enough to cancel the fines.
  9. In his letter to republican leaders, for example, he warned against the unilateral confiscation of central property and said that the question of legal inheritance of the Soviet mantle must be jointly decided by all participants in the commonwealth.
  10. I expect every public official who works for the commonwealth to meet the highest standards of integrity," Dukakis said.
  11. But when commonwealth leaders pushed aside Mr. Gorbachev, splits between Mr. Yeltsin and Mr. Kravchuk began to emerge.
  12. But nobody really knows how the commonwealth will vote on its 74-year-old "prevailing-wage" law.
  13. Food will return to the markets when prices are decontrolled Jan. 2. Prices should have been freed sooner, but the commonwealth republics felt they had to do so jointly to prevent cross border speculation.
  14. In a 1967 non-binding referendum, 60 percent of Puerto Ricans said they wanted to retain commonwealth status while 39 percent wanted statehood.
  15. The slayings had caused political convulsions in the U.S. commonwealth, and its Senate still is investigating the involvement of top-ranking government officials.
  16. "We will work with the commonwealth of Massachusetts to resolve the matter," Kaigen said.
  17. Hugo was moving at 10 mph west-northwest alongside Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth with 3.3 million people.
  18. Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk added that a new system for launching nuclear attacks had been established. Now there will be three nuclear buttons, each controlled by a member of the commonwealth.
  19. Alexander Moroz, former head of the parliament's conservative block, expects that it will take seven years just to get the commonwealth itself in working order.
  20. Under the 38-year commonwealth arrangement, Puerto Rico's 3.3 million residents are U.S. citizens, but they pay no federal taxes and cannot vote for president.
  21. Although many larger oil companies are busily chasing agreements in the new commonwealth, the Anglo-Suisse venture is six months ahead of them and its experience is a test case that seems to be on track so far.
  22. It was only last November that Saipan and 13 other islands, after four decades as a postwar U.S. trust, obtained commonwealth status.
  23. Certainly, the commonwealth republics face many serious problems as they try to create a new non-communist order that will allow private enterprise and private markets to flourish.
  24. Up to now, Drexel has made a rapid-fire series of settlements with 25 states and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
  25. The topic is expected to be raised by representatives of the commonwealth's grain importing agency, Exportkhleb, who are slated to meet with U.S. government officials and grain industry executives this week.
  26. To create a commonwealth, both Koreas should adopt a single constitution, under which a free election should be held to form a unified Korean state, Roh said.
  27. Still, Philadelphia-area lawyer Ron Smolow is pursuing a class action suit in commonwealth court against the state, challenging the imposition of Pennsylvania's 6% sales tax on new-car rebates.
  28. Hernandez Colon, who has requested federal disaster aid, said he would ask the Bush administration to delcare 55 of the U.S. commonwealth's 78 municipalities disaster areas eligible for federal help.
  29. The commonwealth collects taxes at the U.S. rate, keeps 5% and rebates the remainder to taxpayers.
  30. "With this amendment, what I'm trying to do is bring some fiscal sanity back into the commonwealth.
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