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state/st?t/
Noun:
The particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time: "the state of the company's finances".
Adjective:
Of, provided by, or concerned with the civil government of a country: "the future of state education".
Verb:
Express something definitely or clearly in speech or writing: "the report stated that more than 51 percent of voters failed to participate".
Synonyms:
noun. condition - status - situation - position - country
adjective. national - public - governmental - political
verb. declare - say - pronounce - tell

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1. (n.) state
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: the state of one's health.
2. state the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, phase, or the like: water in a gaseous state.
3. state status, rank, or position in life; station.
4. state the formal or elaborate style befitting a person of wealth and high rank: to travel in state.
5. state a particular condition of mind or feeling: an excited state.
6. state an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition: in a state over losing one's job.
7. state a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.
8. state the territory or authority of a state.
9. state (sometimes cap.) any of the bodies politic or political units that together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.
10. state the body politic as organized for civil rule and government: separation of church and state.
11. state the sphere of the highest civil authority and administration: affairs of state.
12. state the States, the United States (usu. used outside its borders).
13. (adj.) state of or pertaining to the central civil government or authority.
14. state of, maintained by, or under the authority of a unit of a federal union: a state highway.
15. state characterized by, attended with, or involving ceremony: a state dinner.
16. state used on or reserved for occasions of ceremony.
17. (v.t.) state to declare definitely or specifically.
18. state to set forth formally in speech or writing.
19. state to set forth in proper or definite form: to state a problem.
20. state to say.
21. state to fix or settle, as by authority.