- a variation of ministate.
mini-state
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The desolate terrain between the Red Sea coast and the mountainous Jordanian border may have seemed like the perfect blank canvas to build a mini-state.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2022
The Serb mini-state Republika Srpska on Friday honored Handke for “exceptional work and contribution in the field of cultural and spiritual development, and for outstanding contribution in developing and strengthening overall relations with Republika Srpska.”
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2021
If the schoolhouse is a mini-state, it has also become, in many places, a military state.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018
In each reprise the focus, invariably, is on Alexander the Great – and who can rightly claim him as their own – and the thorny question of what to call the multi-ethnic mini-state.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2017
Croatia’s minority Serbs, backed by the Serb-led Yugoslav army, took control of large swaths of land and declared their own mini-state.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
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