state
adjective/steɪt/
(also State)
[only before noun]Слово англійською: state
Переклад state українською: стан
Детальний опис
- 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)
- 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)
government
part of country
official
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.