state-run
English
Etymology
state + run, past participle of run.
Adjective
state-run (not comparable)
- which is run by the state
- 1991, The Poverty of Plenty, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 90-8948, OCLC 491504338, page 110:
- 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.
- 2021 September 8, Tom Allett, “Network News: Scottish Greens primed to take major role in rail policy”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10:
- 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 [...].
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References
- “state-run”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- attuners, taunters