A commercial business wholly or partly owned and operated by a government.

Alternative form of nonstate actor

Alternative form of nonstate actor

A state of the United States of America and former colony

(historical) An unrecognized country that existed from 1863 to 1865, when Jones County, Covington County, Bainbridge County and portions of others, of the state of Mississippi, seceded from the Confederate States of America, and attempted to ally with the Union.

(computing theory) A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one state to another.

A state of matter, similar to phase transition states between liquid and solid, that is both liquid and solid. The phase is found in some matter which can exist in crystalline states, where portions are melted liquid while other portions are frozen solid crystal, in a distinct manner.

Official name of Bolivia.

plural of great office of state

Any of the senior offices of the UK government