outstate
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- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌsteɪt/
- US
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forastero
- To hold out in some inner-city precincts until the outstate vote was in and make up enough votes in those precincts to overcome the more conservative outstate votes.
Examples
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To hold out in some inner-city precincts until the outstate vote was in and make up enough votes in those precincts to overcome the more conservative outstate votes.
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"A lot of the state officers have been metro before, and I wanted to move it more outstate so we were getting a say on what's happening," said Brandt.
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Interesting findings: Twin Cities residents continue to adopt broadband use at a higher rate than outstate residents, but the rate has slowed in both places.
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They understood we should vote "no" even the 99-year-old woman outstate.
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In the Twin Cities, 79.2 percent of households have adopted broadband; outstate, the figure is 70.6 percent.
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All they seem to do is come up with pointless laws and amendments that do nothing but pander to the outstate hillbillies.
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Residents in outstate Minnesota often have different political views compared to those in the Twin Cities.
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Many outstate voters are concerned about issues that are different from those in urban areas.
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The conference will feature speakers from both the metro and outstate regions to gather diverse perspectives.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outstate comes from out and state, meaning 'from another state', so as a noun an outstate is a person who lives in or comes from a different state.