- provided or controlled by the government of a country
- state officials/agencies
- state education
- families dependent on state benefits (= in Britain, money given by the government to people who are poor)
- state secrets (= information that could be harmful to a country if it were discovered by an enemy)
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsb1- The law applies only to schools within the state system.
- a country with a state healthcare system
- Charities are required to register with a state agency.
- Every citizen could buy shares in privatized state property.
- He was shot for passing state secrets to foreign powers.
- Some prefer tax cuts to greater state spending on health and social services.
- Teachers in the state sector are asking for a 7% pay rise.
- The state pension is barely enough to live on.
- The telephone network is still under state control.
- large-scale state intervention in industry
- the legitimate exercise of state power
- schools outside the state system
- unemployed people living on state benefits
- A change in state funding will require the museum to pay for the restoration.
- The film was shown on state television.
- Chinese state media has condemned the attack.
- provided or controlled by a particular state of a country, especially in the US
- the state government/legislature
- California state law
- a state prison/hospital/university
- state police/troopers
- a state tax
- federal and state government policies
- connected with the leader of a country attending an official ceremony
- The queen is on a state visit to Berlin.
- the state opening of Parliament
- the state apartments (= used for official ceremonies)
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Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): partly a shortening of estate, partly from Latin status ‘manner of standing, condition’, from stare ‘to stand’. The current verb senses date from the mid 17th cent.
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