state-run

English

Etymology

state +‎ run, past participle of run.

Adjective

state-run (not comparable)

1. which is run by the state
   • 1991, The Poverty of Plenty‎^[1], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:

     In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper. The county's truck team had not even kept accounts for the past few years.

   • 2021 September 8, Tom Allett, “Network News: Scottish Greens primed to take major role in rail policy”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10:

     The power sharing deal came as ScotRail, which will be entirely state-run by March 2022, released its Fit for Purpose document that plans to axe 300 services per day compared with pre-pandemic levels [...].

References

• “state-run”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• attuners, taunters