suprastate

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English

Etymology

From supra- +‎ state.

Adjective

suprastate (not comparable)

  1. Greater than any one state (in its reach or organization)
    • 2014 October 4, Anelyse M. Weiler et al., “Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: a meta-narrative mapping exercise”, in Health Policy and Planning, volume 30, →DOI:
      In the 1980s, suprastate institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization began appealing to food security discourse as a way to justify neoliberal trade liberalization projects ( Otero et al. 2013 ).

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