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nonstate actors

nonstate actors is the plural of nonstate actor.

Meaning of nonstate actor

Noun

nonstate actor (plural nonstate actors)

  1. An organization or other group whose behavior significantly affects political, economic, or strategic interactions between countries or major events within a country, but that is not itself a recognized country or a representative of a recognized country.
    • Nobody's particularly optimistic that the Afghan civil war that began almost a decade ago is going to end any time soon. […] [T]his is a new type of war against a non-state actor, in which the definitions, strategies and yardsticks of all previous conflicts no longer apply.2001 October 31, Tony Karon, “Halloween Word for the Pundits: Quagmire”, in Time, retrieved 24 May 2018

Questions about nonstate actors

What is nonstate actors the plural of?
Nonstate actors is the plural of nonstate actor.

Words near nonstate actors in the dictionary

  1. nonstarting
  2. nonstarved
  3. nonstarving
  4. nonstate
  5. nonstate actor
  6. nonstate actors
  7. nonstated
  8. nonstateful
  9. nonstatement
  10. nonstatements
  11. nonstates

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