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• COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (noun) The noun COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES has 1 sense: 1. an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 Familiarity information: COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES used as a noun is very rare.
