state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
cryptography coding secret writing steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
mystery enigma secret closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
plot secret plan game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
cryptogram cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State United States Department of State State Department State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state renegade state rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government puppet state pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
state government | the government of a state in the United States |
totalitarian state totalitation regime | a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
supreme court state supreme court high court | the highest court in most states of the United States |
Secret Intelligence Service MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service US Secret Service USSS Secret Service SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
state capitalism | an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production |
state socialism | an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed |
state bank | a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government |
police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
narco-state | an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent, this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships pounds of cocaine to the United States every day |