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state-run

state-run adjective: which is run by the state.

Adjective

state-run (not comparable)

  1. which is run by the state
    • In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper. The county's truck team had not even kept accounts for the past few years.1991, The Poverty of Plenty, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110
    • The power sharing deal came as ScotRail, which will be entirely state-run by March 2022, released its Fit for Purpose document that plans to axe 300 services per day compared with pre-pandemic levels [...].2021 September 8, Tom Allett, “Network News: Scottish Greens primed to take major role in rail policy”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10

Origin of state-run

From state + run, past participle of run.

Questions about state-run

What does state-run mean?
State-run means which is run by the state.
What part of speech is state-run?
State-run is an adjective.

Words near state-run in the dictionary

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

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