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mega- +‎ state

Noun

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megastate (plural megastates)

  1. A very large geopolitical state.
    • 2005, Paul Roberts, The end of oil: on the edge of a perilous new world:
      [] the idea that a megastate like China or India might pass through a full-blown industrial revolution simply boggles the mind.
    • 2008, Gary R. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida:
      At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular []

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