interstater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The local operators and VicRail are not obtaining the business anyway; the interstaters are getting it and they are not putting 1 cent back into the coffers of Victoria."
- "It is alleged that a male child care worker from Canberra was targeted for arrest after refusing police entrance to an area of parkland where hundreds of interstaters were camped."
- "But the only ships that came to salute the rusty hulks of a couple of old trawlers pensioned off against the jetty were an interstater once a fortnight, smartly painted Norwegian freighters in the apple season, and drab, dusty wheat ships…"
- "I had to remind myself every time I entered a highway; 'you are a local driver, not an interstater — take the next exit!'"
Etymology
From interstate + -er.
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Australian usage
- American usage