State-run

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    which is run by the state not-comparable

    "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."

Example

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"In the U.S. after 2016, it was hard to know whether they had a state-run media or a media-run state."

Etymology

From state + run, past participle of run.

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