megastateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

megastate (複数形 megastates)

1. A very large geopolitical state.
   • 2005, Paul Roberts, The end of oil: on the edge of a perilous new world

     […] the idea that a megastate like China or India might pass through a full-blown industrial revolution simply boggles the mind.

   • 2008, Gary R. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida

     At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular […]