7 example sentences using commonwealth.
Commonwealth used in a sentence
Commonwealth in a sentence as a noun
The commonwealth and Nordic countries, by comparison, are much further along.
Legally speaking, the commonwealth is the owner of the operating company.
The founder's shares were also put into the general pocket of the commonwealth, so it is the administration of the commonwealth that owns the thing.
It's derived from the Latin "res publica", for "public property", which is exactly synonymous with the English word "commonwealth".
I'm sure other commonwealth states must have diversity in voting systems also, despite being otherwise 'UK-derived'.
The equity doesn't lie anymore with Ernest Bader, it lies with that commonwealth, and everybody who works for a certain length of time becomes a member of the commonwealth.
Ernest Bader said, No, I don't want to have ownership of this company, and so all the capital, except 10 percent, was vested in the commonwealth, which was set up for this purpose as a limited company.
Commonwealth definitions
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
a politically organized body of people under a single government; "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"
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