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Examplestan

Examplestan proper noun: a placeholder name for a country; a hypothetical country.

examplestan: a placeholder name for a country; a hypothetical country
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Proper noun

Examplestan (plural Examplestans)

  1. (informal, rare) A placeholder name for a country; a hypothetical country.
    • Okay, imagine that there's a guy who will, if given the chance, kill a few million of your people, and you could stop him, but he's living in Examplestan, and the Examplestani goverment says "oh, no, we're not going to let him attack you".2001 September 14, Peter Seebach, “Re: That event”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic (Usenet)
    • As a way of making the Ground Rules more concrete, work through the following facts and the questions that follow. Ten manufacturers located in the State of Examplestan are engaged in the manufacture of cement mix. Among them they have for some time managed to meet that State’s entire cement mix...2011, Christopher L. Sagers, “A Two-Part Strategy for Understanding Antitrust Economics” (chapter 2), in Antitrust (Examples & Explanations), Frederick, Md.: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, →ISBN...

Examples of Examplestan in a sentence

  • Ten manufacturers located in the State of Examplestan are engaged in the manufacture of cement mix.2011, Christopher L. Sagers, “A Two-Part Strategy for Understanding Antitrust Economics” (chapter 2), in Antitrust (Examples &...
  • Examplestan recently increased its production of houses from 1,000 to 1,200 houses.2013, Jonh Lovett, “Study Questions”, in Horizons in Macroeconomics: An Introduction to the Macroeconomy, 2nd edition, Dubuque, Iowa...

Synonyms of Examplestan

Forms of Examplestan

pluralExamplestans

Origin of Examplestan

From example + -stan (“used to form fictitious or metaphoric country names”).

Questions about Examplestan

What does Examplestan mean?
Examplestan means a placeholder name for a country; a hypothetical country.
How do you use Examplestan in a sentence?
Ten manufacturers located in the State of Examplestan are engaged in the manufacture of cement mix.
What part of speech is Examplestan?
Examplestan is a proper noun.

Words near Examplestan in the dictionary

  1. exampleless
  2. exampler
  3. examplers
  4. examples
  5. examples in point
  6. Examplestan
  7. Examplestans
  8. exampling
  9. exams
  10. examsmanship
  11. exanewton

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