State-owned

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Owned, controlled by, and under the purview or responsibility of a country's central government or its agencies and institutions. not-comparable

    "The French Government is Eurostar's majority shareholder, with the country's state-owned railway SNCF holding a 55% stake, while Belgian state operator SNCB has a 5% stake."

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"Sonatrach is the Algerian state-owned oil company."

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state-owned enterprise

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