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suprastate

suprastate adjective: greater than any one state (in its reach or organization).

Adjective

suprastate (not comparable)

  1. Greater than any one state (in its reach or organization)
    • In the 1980s, suprastate institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization began appealing to food security discourse as a way to justify neoliberal trade liberalization projects ( Otero et al. 2013 ).2014 October 4, Anelyse M. Weiler et al., “Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: a meta-narrative mapping exercise”, in Health Policy and Planning, volume 30, →DOI

Origin of suprastate

From supra- + state.

Questions about suprastate

What does suprastate mean?
Suprastate means greater than any one state (in its reach or organization).
What part of speech is suprastate?
Suprastate is an adjective.

Words near suprastate in the dictionary

  1. supraspinous
  2. suprasplenial
  3. supraspliceosome
  4. supraspliceosomes
  5. suprastapedial
  6. suprastate
  7. suprasternal
  8. suprasternal notch
  9. suprasternal notches
  10. suprastoichiometric
  11. suprastomal

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