intrastate
nounEtymology From intra- + state.
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US A highway completely within a state (not an interstate).
intrastate
adjEtymology From intra- + state.
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Within a sovereign state or country.
- Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
- Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:
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US Within a state.
- This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.
- The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times: