intrastate en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder. Latin *interus Latin intrābor. English intra- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English intrastate From intra- + state.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Within a sovereign state or country.
Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .
1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
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(US, not-comparable) Within a state.
This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.
The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times: