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/ˌɪntərstˈeɪt/ /ˌɪnərstˈeɪt/ Listen

Interstate

adjective

Involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States. "Interstate highways" , "Interstate Commerce Commission" , "Interstate commerce"

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"Interstate" Quotes from Famous Books

... class would have been blown away in a gale of laughter. In a space incredibly brief the United States became a nation of actual workers, in which every individual did his or her share, submitting meanwhile, with good grace and no murmuring, to being rationed. Interstate utilities were taken over and operated by the government, including the railway, telegraph and telephone lines; and government fixed prices on the necessaries of life. Everything was subordinated to the one and only purpose of winning ...

— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell

... distress in my voice as I telephoned Corey, president of the Interstate Trust Company, to stay at his office until I came; there was no signal of distress in my manner as I sallied forth and went down to the Power Trust Building; nor did I show or suggest that I had heard the "shot-at-sunrise" ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... battle of Gravelotte; discussion between Sheridan and Goldwin Smith regarding sundry points in military history. General Schenck; his reminiscences of Corwin Everett, and others. Resignation of my presidency at Cornell, 1885. President Cleveland's tender of an Interstate Railway commissionership, my declination. Departure for Europe. Am tendered nomination for Congress; my discussion of the matter in London with President Porter of Yale and others; declination. Visit to Washington under the administration of General Harrison, ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... United States have equal operation from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. Congress has representatives from every part of the country, including the South, whose votes are recorded upon national legislation. Railroads do not break bulk between North and South. Interstate commerce goes on unvexed between the one and the other. The Post-office department distributes its mail with impartiality on each side of Mason's and Dixon's Line. Prosperity in the North is accompanied by prosperity in the South, and a halt in the one means a halt ...

— The South and the National Government • William Howard Taft

Words linked to "Interstate" : intrastate, Interstate Commerce Commission, interstate highway, main road, highway