state owned enterprise

A form of state-owned enterprise — A commercial business wholly or partly owned and operated at a national level by a country or city state through its sovereign central government as the head and operator.

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Meanings

nounstate owned enterprise (plural state owned enterprises)

plural state owned enterprises

  1. alternativeAlternative form of state-owned enterprise.
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