Definition of Supranational

1. Adjective. Transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest. "Supranational federations"

Similar to: International

Definition of Supranational

1. Adjective. Beyond the borders or scope of any one nation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supranational

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supranational

supramaxillae
supramaxillary
supramaximal
supramaximally
supramembrane
supramembranes
supramental
supramesenteric
supramesocolic
supramillion
supramodal
supramolecular
supramolecule
supramolecules
supramundane
supranational (current term)
supranationally
supranatural
supranaturalistic
supranet
supranets
supranormal
supranuclear
supranuclear palsy
supraoccipital
supraoccipitals
supraocular
supraoptic
supraorbital
supraorbital ridge

Literary usage of Supranational

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Balkans 2010: Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council by Edward C. Meyer, William L. Nash (2002)
"This aid and assistance has come from governments across Europe, and from the United States and Japan; from supranational and international organizations ..."

2. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"The most important of these threats is the capability of supranational capitalism to rearrange the global division and distribution of political and ..."

3. Sustainable Agriculture in Print: Current Books edited by Barry Leonard (1997)
"Issues are viewed at four levels — international or supranational, national, regional, and farm. Provides information on developments in land use planning, ..."

4. The American Philosophy of Government by Alpheus Henry Snow (1921)
"The only adjective which can appropriately be used with "law" to express the idea of a law governing the nations is therefore "supranational" or ..."

5. Report of the Hundred and Twenty Fifth Round Table on Transport Economics by ECMT Staff, Evropská konference ministrů dopravy, Transport Research Centre, Economic Research Centre (2004)
"In the event of a supranational railway company, the only way of taking account of regional specificities at the level of freight traffic demand would be to ..."

6. Institutional Development in Divided Societies by Bertus De Villiers, Frank Delmartino, André Alen (1998)
"The substitution mechanism can be used only a posteriori, ie after the Belgian state has been condemned by an international or supranational court for the ..."

7. Kaskaskia Under the French Regime by Natalia Maree Belting (2003)
"Reallocations of power Reallocations are tending to transfer some of the powers of national governments upward to supranational bodies and others downward ..."

8. New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, Security, and Governance by Ramesh Chandra Thakur, Edward Newman (2000)
"This is in striking contrast to its democratic allies in Western Europe, all of which have accepted the supranational authority of the European Court of ..."

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