Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

state-owned enterprise

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables: state-owned en-ter-prise
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

state-owned enterprises (plural) state owned enterprise (alternative)

Derived Forms

SOE

Frequently Paired Words

parastatal public-private partnership

Synonyms

government business enterprise government-owned and controlled corporation government-owned corporation SOE

Questions

What does state-owned enterprise mean?: 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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