Meanings
adjectivesuprastate (not comparable)
- not comparableGreater than any one state (in its reach or organization)
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 ).
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
Origin
Translations
Italian sovrastatale
- sovrastataleTranslations
Spanish supraestatal
- supraestatalTranslations
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