| 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 |
| 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 |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
initial public offering
IPO
initial offering | a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
| initial | the first letter of a word (especially a person's name), he refused to put the initials FRS after his name |
alliteration
initial rhyme
beginning rhyme
head rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse, around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
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 |
| 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 |
supreme court state supreme court
high court | the highest court in most states of the United States |
| 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 |
state line
state boundary | the boundary between two states |
buffer state
buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country
state
land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
protectorate
associated state | a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs, protectorates are established by treaty |
| state province | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation, his state is in the deep south |
| American state | one of thestates of the United States |
| state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
Balkan country
Balkan nation
Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
Afghanistan
Islamic State of Afghanistan | a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia, bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in |
Eritrea
State of Eritrea | an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea, achieved independence from Ethiopia in |
Israel
State of Israel
Yisrael
Zion
Sion
| Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean, formerly part of Palestine |
| Australian state | one of the several states constituting Australia |
Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea | a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations |