philippines has definitions from the fields of geography,government
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[ noun ] (government,geography) a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946

Used in print

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India , Brazil , the Philippines , and Taiwan , which are ready and committed to move_into the stage of self-sustaining growth .

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[ noun ] (geography) an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
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