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[ noun ] (government) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
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"the state has lowered its income tax"
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government
Soviets
welfare_state
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[ noun ] (government,geography) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
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province
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"his state is in the deep south"
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administrative_district
Bavaria
commonwealth
Chihuahua
Gansu
American_state
Assam
Lower_Saxony
Indonesian_Borneo
Eritrea
hebei
Canadian_province
Italian_region
goa
karnataka
Bihar
Gujarat
Orissa
friesland
Transvaal
Soviet_Socialist_Republic
Buganda
madras
kosovo
manipur
andhra_pradesh
Australian_state
abkhaz
adzhar
Tyrol
Yunnan
eparchy
guangdong
hunan
sinkiang
inner_mongolia
uttar_pradesh
west_bengal
Szechwan
free_state
cape_colony
cape_of_good_hope
Chechnya
country
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[ noun ] (politics,geography) a politically organized body of people under a single government |
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country
nation
commonwealth
land
body_politic
res_publica
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"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"
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political_unit
world_power
ally
Reich
dominion
renegade_state
sea_power
city_state
suzerain
estate
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4. |
[ noun ] the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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"the current state of knowledge"
"his state of health"
"in a weak financial state"
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condition
degree
condition
action
situation
being
sale
office
death
freedom
status
integrity
maturity
nature
relationship
employment
relationship
order
perfection
end
dependence
grace
readiness
unemployment
conflict
motion
inaction
dead_letter
imminence
illumination
merchantability
plurality
annulment
utilization
temporary_state
union
physiological_state
nonbeing
damnation
immaturity
omnipotence
omniscience
disorder
dystopia
utopia
cognitive_state
receivership
imperfection
ownership
hostility
turgor
tribalism
cleavage
isomerism
conditionality
mulltivalency
heterozygosity
homozygosity
kalemia
ground_state
ornamentation
obligation
flux
motionlessness
representation
paternity
medium
skillfulness
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[ verb ] express an idea, etc. in words |
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say
tell
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"He said that he wanted to marry her"
"tell me what is bothering you"
"state your opinion"
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express
add
give
answer
note
declare
declare
present
announce
explain
get_out
play_down
preface
articulate
sum
misstate
declare
say
statement
narrator
affirmation
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[ noun ] (government) the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies |
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Department_of_State
State_Department
dos
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"the Department of State was created in 1789"
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executive_department
bureau_of_intelligence_and_research
bureau_of_diplomatic_security
foreign_service
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[ noun ] (government,geography) the territory occupied by a nation |
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country
land
nation
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"he returned to the land of his birth"
"he visited several European countries"
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administrative_district
Cuba
Soviet_Union
Australia
fatherland
Iceland
Philippines
European_country
Indonesia
Turkey
kingdom
Dominican_Republic
Papua_New_Guinea
sultanate
Comoros
Grenada
Maldives
Haiti
African_country
Jamaica
Barbados
Asian_country
Trinidad_and_Tobago
Samoa
Cyprus
South_American_country
buffer_state
Sao_Tome_e_Principe
Fiji
Dominica
east_timor
Bahamas
Israel
Burkina_Faso
Turkmenistan
Antigua_and_Barbuda
North_American_country
Vanuatu
Malta
Mauritius
New_Zealand
Tuvalu
Saint_Christopher-Nevis
Saint_Lucia
Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines
Marshall_Islands
Kiribati
Seychelles
Solomon_Islands
Nauru
Russia
Ukraine
Sri_Lanka
Tonga
Cape_Verde
rus
banana_republic
etruria
federated_states_of_micronesia
tax_haven
palau
democratic_republic_of_sao_tome_and_principe
department
domain
midland
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8. |
[ adjective ] (government) supported and operated by the government of a state |
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state-supported
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"a state university"
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public
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[ verb ] put before |
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submit
put_forward
posit
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"I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
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propose
affirmation
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[ noun ] (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |
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state_of_matter
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"the solid state of water is called ice"
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chemical_phenomenon
phase
gas
liquid
plasma
solid
plasma
chemistry
liquid
solid
gaseous
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[ verb ] indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. |
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express
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"Can you express this distance in kilometers?"
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denote
vote
vote
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[ noun ] (informal) a state of depression or agitation |
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"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
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emotional_state
colloquialism
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[ adjective ] in the service of the community or nation |
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"state security"
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public
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stoat
Stoute
statue
stet
stay_at
Studt
Stout
Stott
Stitt
Stith
Steed
Stead
stewed
steady
Stoudt
Staudt
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