English Dictionary

free state

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的

A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.

日本語の意味

完全な主権国家ほどの地位は有さず、限定的な政治的自治権を持つ政治主体。歴史的には、元コンゴ自由国や元アイルランド自由国のように、独立国家に準ずるが、完全な国家とはみなされない形態を指す。

The new constitution defined the territory as a free state, granting it limited self-rule while leaving foreign affairs to the supervising power.

新しい憲法はその地域を半主権的な政治体として定め、限定的な自治を認める一方で、外交は監督権を持つ国の管轄に残した。

意味（1）

A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.

意味（2）

A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns.

意味（3）

An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.

意味（4）

A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.

意味（5）

(engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.

The steel ring is required by the engineering drawing to have roundness within .25mm TIR while in the free state. Its diameters may be measured in the constrained state while the part is still chucked or fixtured.

意味（6）

(US, historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.

意味（7）

(grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the construct state by the noun not being dependent (more commonly called absolute state, or indeterminate state if the specific language contrasts a determinate state with the construct state).

free states （ plural ）