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state-controlled

state-controlled

5 5.8
The government owns and runs an organization or service instead of private companies
  • adjective
  • /steɪt kənˈtroʊld/
translation icon : controlado por el estado
  • How can you have a market-based system when the state controls all investment capital?
  • state-controlled economy
  • state-controlled companies
  • state-controlled media

I mean, you've mentioned the media is effectively all state controlled.

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Examples

  • Mubarak was furious and used the state-controlled press to lash out.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Britain became perhaps the most state-controlled and -regulated economy in Europe.

  • Through the church, the state controlled and actively formed public opinion.

    Academic text (1996)
  • State-controlled media used to allow the government to present only what it found palatable.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The state-controlled press has kept Gamal and his projects in the spotlight.

    Academic text (2008)
  • With state-controlled interest rates, the allocation of capital had become disconnected from market principles.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Purely state-controlled industrial development is no longer possible in Taiwan; it is more like market-guided state intervention.

    Academic text (1996)
  • State-controlled media devoted round-the-clock coverage to Mubarak but refused to broadcast his opponents' speeches and campaign events.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Unemployment was regarded as politically undesirable; thus, state-owned enterprises were subsidized with costless credit by state-controlled banks.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The country has a state-controlled economy, where all major industries are owned by the government.

Synonyms

parastatal
vsstate-controlled
  • UK
8.6

An organization the government controls but that is not part of it

is owned or directly controlled by the government rather than being separate
collectivized
vsstate-controlled
8.2

Property such as farms and factories that the government or a group owns and runs

focuses on control specifically by the government rather than by collective groups

How Free

laissez-faire economy
  • Specialized
7.2
mixed economy
  • Specialized
2 4.1
regulated
4.1
state-controlled
5 5.8

Surface Forms

state-controlled positive

Morphology

state-controlled = state + controlled (transparent) = state + control + ed

The adjective is a straightforward compound of 'state' + 'controlled' meaning governed or managed by the state, which is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

State-controlled combines state meaning 'government' and controlled meaning 'kept under someone's power'. Think of the government holding a company by the hand, so state-controlled describes something owned or run by the government rather than private people.