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statal en · ADJ

Etymology

From state + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to a state or condition.
  2. (not-comparable) Resulting from structural considerations as opposed to actions.
    • Finally, implications for future policy and practice in relation to respect, trust, and students' rights are considered, with the possibility of increasing connection and reducing social exclusion by thinking in new terms of addressing statal exclusions through participation rights. 2004, Ros Edwards, Children, Home and School: Regulation, Autonomy Or Connection?, →ISBN:
  3. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a word or word form (such as a passive verb or a modifier) or other linguistic element that denotes a state rather than an action or process.
    • All (pre-nominal) participial modifiers in Hindi have a statal meaning whether or not they involve a statal verb (something like “in the state of sleeping / having slept / running / eating / having been washed”, etc.). 1971, Manindra K. Verma, The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English and Hindi, page 160:
  4. (in-compounds, not-comparable, usually) Pertaining to a state within a federal government.
    • Every element of a State of the American Union remained, except this statal relation to the Union 1879, Albion W. Tourgée, A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools:
    • The theoretical position adopted here suggest ^([sic]) that this process is in fact a contradictory one, and includes three levels — supra-statal, statal and intra-statal levels, and within each level there are two dimensions; ^([sic]) the transnational political organisations and a new global culture. 2003, Dave Ramsaran, “Understanding the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Globalisation: The Case of Bananas in St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines”, in Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Don D. Marshall, editor, Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development, page 96:

Deriveds

peri-statal · para-statal · inter-statal · pre-statal · sub-statal · parastatal · infra-statal · extra-statal · non-statal · supra-statal · anti-statal · intra-statal

Translations (11)

oc estatal (relating to a state) · ro statal (relating to a state) · nl statelijk (relating to a state) · pt estatal (relating to a state) · es estatal (relating to a state) · fi valtion- (relating to a state) · gl estatal (relating to a state) · ca estatal (relating to a state) · fi osavaltion- (to a state of the US) · fi valtiollinen (relating to a state) · it statale (relating to a state)