A type of systemic political corruption in which a small number of private businesses influence government policy to their own advantage.

State of matter; a distinct form in which substances can exist, including solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

Alternative form of nonstate.

(informal, humorous, derogatory) New Jersey (U.S. state).

A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.

Alternative form of nonstate.

(historical) Any of loose coalition of African countries from the 1960s to the early 1990s committed to ending apartheid and white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia.

Alternative form of Secretary of State

(US) An annual competitive and recreational gathering of a U.S. state's population, usually held in late summer or early fall.

(computing) Data or information that is changed or manipulated throughout the runtime of a program.