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state-owned enterprises

state-owned enterprises is the plural of state-owned enterprise.

Meaning of state-owned enterprise

Noun

state-owned enterprise (plural state-owned enterprises)

  1. A commercial business wholly or partly owned and operated at a national level by a country or city state through its sovereign central government as the head and operator.
    Synonyms:
    government business enterprise, government-owned and controlled corporation, government-owned corporation, SOE

Questions about state-owned enterprises

What is state-owned enterprises the plural of?
State-owned enterprises is the plural of state-owned enterprise.

Words near state-owned enterprises in the dictionary

  1. state-level municipalities
  2. state-level municipality
  3. state-of-the-art
  4. state-owned
  5. state-owned enterprise
  6. state-owned enterprises
  7. state-room
  8. state-run
  9. stateable
  10. stateball
  11. stateballs

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