state senator
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3.5
- noun
- /steɪt ˈsɛnətər/
- US
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senador estatal (EE. UU.)
- I knew who he was when he was still a state senator voting present...
But how many people know or call their state senator?
- But how many people know or call their state senator?
- Get the mail out and he's running for state senator and there's a photograph on the postcard from him.
- And it wasn't just Ted Cruz, one state senator from Arizona tweeted.
- Name a California State Senator Dianne Feinstein.
- We we have to act quickly because the sequoias being restored, according to State Senator Cathy Breen over a four year.
Examples
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My friend's mother was a Connecticut state senator for a long time.
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The bill, SB 11, was filed on Monday by Republican state Senator Jane Nelson.
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I have served as a state senator, a U.S. senator, and now as the president.
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My sister worked on a campaign for a Georgia state senator while she was still in college.
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I am making a proposal to my state senator and state house representative.
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She's a state senator from Wisconsin.
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State Senator John Briggs wants to change that.
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Today, Smith is a Democratic state senator who chairs a special committee attempting to implement Revision 7.
Academic text (2005) -
After serving nine years as a state senator, Coleman Young was elected as Detroit's first African American mayor in 1973.
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She is a highly influential state senator representing California in the legislature.
Synonyms
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3.3
A person in a senate who helps make national laws
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3.2
A person who votes on laws in national or local government
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5.5
A person who makes laws as a member of a government group
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'state' (a regional political entity) with 'senator' (a member of a senate): it denotes a senator who serves at the state level. This modifier + headword pattern is cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended role, despite minor jurisdictional variations in different countries.
Etymology
State senator is made of the words state and senator. The word 'senator' once meant a member of a council of older leaders who made laws, so a state senator is someone chosen to sit in the state's law-making council, the 'senate'.