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

(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.

In the American Civil War, one of the slave states that did not join the Confederacy.

A state in the Trucial States

plural of state electrician

(US) A person hired by a state government to execute condemned criminals in the electric chair.

A state consisting of one or more islands

A region in northern Israel containing Galilee, and Tiberias.

(computing) Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved

The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.