Meanings
- not comparableWithin a sovereign state or country.
Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
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Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .
1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47 - USnot comparableWithin a state.
This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.
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The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times
plural intrastates
- USA highway completely within a state (not an interstate).
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelating to or existing within the boundaries of a state
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁énteros
- Latin*interus
- Latinintrā
- Englishintra-
- Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
- Proto-Italic*status
- Latinstatu
- Old Frenchestat
- Middle Englishstat
- Englishstate
- Englishintrastate
Cite this entry
intrastate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrastate
“intrastate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrastate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intrastate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrastate.
Source: intrastate on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.