Suprastate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Greater than any one state (in its reach or organization) not-comparable

    "In the 1980s, suprastate institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization began appealing to food security discourse as a way to justify neoliberal trade liberalization projects ( Otero et al. 2013 )."

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"In the 1980s, suprastate institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization began appealing to food security discourse as a way to justify neoliberal trade liberalization projects ( Otero et al. 2013 )."

Etymology

From supra- + state.

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