plural of listening station

A facility established to monitor radio and microwave signals and analyse their content to secure information and intelligence for use by the security and diplomatic community and others.

Not stationary; moving.

(informal, chiefly outside of the US) Short for United States. / (historical, US) Those parts of the United States comprising states rather than territories.

plural of State

A state or nation acting outside of the accepted international norms and policies.

A sovereign state which is a member of an international organisation or some kind of confederation of other such states.

(Canada, US) A place on the highway where trucks stop to get weighed.

(US) A metropolitan area with one or more other metropolitan and or micropolitan area components defined with it.

The property of being a state. / The condition of being a country.