state function
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After his Oireachtas address, President Biden will be the evening guest of honour at a state function in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
In this view, public health and safety is solely a state function.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022
When the prime minister of the Serbian enclave in Bosnia, Zeljka Cvijanovic, stopped at the hotel and met Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she issued a news release almost suggestive of a state function.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2020
The value of a state function depends only on the state that a system is in, and not on how that state is reached.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
“Don’t you know that this is a state function, got up to welcome you and Mr Benson?”
From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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