parastatalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /paɹəˈsteɪtəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈsteɪdəl/

名詞

parastatal (複数形 parastatals)

1. (chiefly Africa) A company, agency, or intergovernmental organization that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.

同意語

• quango

形容詞

parastatal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to such a company or group.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 918:

     ‘Parastatal’ organizations – local councils, representatives of business, the Red Cross – had been increasingly filling the gap left by the government’s maladministration [...].