parastatal
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parastatal (plural parastatals)
- A company, agency, or intergovernmental organisation, that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.
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parastatal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to such a company or group.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 918:
- ‘Parastatal’ organizations – local councils, representatives of business, the Red Cross – had been increasingly filling the gap left by the government's maladministration [...].
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 918:
