Synonym of state-owned enterprise.

(Ireland) state-owned but managed independently along commercial lines / ceremonial, but somewhat less ornate, formal, or prestigious than would be classed as "state"

(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does not bear a determiner – where it would use the determinate state –, nor governs a noun – where it would use the construct state.

(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does bear a determiner (by contrast, in Aramaic there is an emphatic state or status emphaticus as a state of determination by the noun alone)

plural of state church

a church established by or controlled by the government of a country.

(archaic) Dignified, old-fashioned style

The US states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas

(Pennsylvania) A liquor store

plural of state store