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stateside

stateside

5 4.4
In the United States, especially compared with other countries
  • adjective
  • /ˈsteɪtsaɪd/
: en Estados Unidos
  • Many not deployed in combat zones did receive extra pay when stateside and extra pay when in hazardous duty environments.

Examples

  • Then, a week to stabilize in a medical installation and a quick flight to a stateside hospital.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The company is planning a major expansion of its stateside operations to better serve American customers.

  • I'll go to some of my stateside sources, and I'll find out what I can.

    The Gunman (2015)

  • My stateside friends and I have talked about why men historically loved spending their lives dedicated to studying.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • They have networks stateside that are ready to receive labor force people that they can rent out.

  • And stateside review boards are even more lenient.

    Casualties of War (1989)

  • Janine is the website editor of a small stateside office of a British newspaper, up against the most powerful government in the world.

    Snowden (2016)

  • Orlando entered the stateside public school system in third grade.

    Academic text (1996)

  • They're all decorated heroes returned from the Second World War, and stateside life just seems flat to them.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Educational problems in the tropics are real, serious, and not dissimilar to problems at stateside schools.

    Academic text (1991)

Surface Forms

stateside positive

Morphology

stateside = state + side (semi-transparent) = state + side

The components 'state' and 'side' are clear, but the specific meaning related to the United States is metaphorical.

Etymology

Stateside comes from the short name States for the United States plus the part -side, which works like in 'inside' or 'outside' to show a place. So, something called stateside is located or happening 'in the United States'.