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commonwealth

 noun
     
com‧mon‧wealth
1

the Commonwealth

PG an organization of about 50 countries that were once part of the British empire:
the Commonwealth Games
2PG [countable] an association of countries with political or economic connections
commonwealth of
a commonwealth of nations
3 [countable] American English the official legal title of some US states
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