intrastate
existing or occurring within the boundaries of a state, especially of the United States: intrastate commerce.
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Origin of intrastate
1- Compare interstate.
Words that may be confused with intrastate
- interstate, intestate, intrastate
Words Nearby intrastate
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How to use intrastate in a sentence
As the Pennsylvania brief notes, intrastate disputes that the Supreme Court has heard generally involve alleged damage done by one state to another state’s “core sovereign interests.”
A scorching reply to the awful Texas lawsuit frames the stakes of the moment | Greg Sargent | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostWhen Congress sought to reach inside a state to regulate intrastate commerce, the Supreme Court initially resisted.
Is the Supreme Court’s Health-Care Ruling a Turning Point in Constitutional Law? | Randy Barnett | June 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn some states he has secured legislation penalizing railways for delay in settling intrastate claims.
Letters from an Old Railway Official | Charles DeLano HineThe conflicting intrastate rates have borne far more deeply and far more dangerously upon them.
The Railroad Problem | Edward HungerfordAnd this despite the fact that the vast majority of freight traffic is interstate, rather than intrastate.
The Railroad Problem | Edward Hungerford
Then, the explanation is—although the classifications changed from interstate to intrastate, it was the same claim.
Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for intrastate
/ (ˌɪntrəˈsteɪt) /
mainly US of, relating to, or confined within a single state, esp a state of the US
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