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intrastate

[ in-truh-steyt ]

adjective

  1. existing or occurring within the boundaries of a state, especially of the United States:

    intrastate commerce.



intrastate

/ ˌɪntrəˈsteɪt /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or confined within a single state, esp a state of the US
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of intrastate1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; intra- + state
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Example Sentences

As the Pennsylvania brief notes, intrastate disputes that the Supreme Court has heard generally involve alleged damage done by one state to another state’s “core sovereign interests.”

When Congress sought to reach inside a state to regulate intrastate commerce, the Supreme Court initially resisted.

In some states he has secured legislation penalizing railways for delay in settling intrastate claims.

The conflicting intrastate rates have borne far more deeply and far more dangerously upon them.

And this despite the fact that the vast majority of freight traffic is interstate, rather than intrastate.

Then, the explanation is—although the classifications changed from interstate to intrastate, it was the same claim.

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