(history) A former country in East Africa, a communist government that existed in Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.

The official name of North Vietnam.

(euphemistic, politics) An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.

(politics) A theoretical concept within Marxism-Leninism and a form of government in communist states which developed after World War II and in theory allowed for a multi-class, multi-party democracy on the pathway to socialism, rather than a pure proletarian dictatorship.

(US, politics) Synonym of lunchbox Democrat

(US, politics) Synonym of lunchbox Democrat

(US, politics) A high-ranking member of the Democratic Party with a working-class or blue-collar background, especially one who attempts to leverage this background through populist appeals.

(physics) The idea that there is no real distinction between composite and elementary particles.

(economics) Synonym of cross elasticity of demand

(economics) an economic metric that measures the responsiveness of a quantity demanded for a good to a change in income, calculated as the percent change in demand over the percent change in income