🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

empresa estatal

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ẽˈpɾe.zɐ iʃ.tɐˈtaɫ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
State-owned Enterprise/ˌsteɪt.oʊnd ˈɛn.tɚ.praɪz/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O governo anunciou a reestruturação da principal empresa estatal de petróleo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A business enterprise in which the government has full or majority equity ownership and exercises control over its strategic management and operations.

    "The government plans to privatize several loss-making state-owned enterprises to reduce the national deficit."
  2. 2

    A corporate entity created by a state to undertake commercial activities on behalf of the public interest.

    "The national railway operates as a state-owned enterprise providing subsidized transport to remote regions."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English words 'state' (referring to the government) and 'owned' (denoting possession), combined with 'enterprise' (originating from Middle French 'entreprise', meaning a venture or undertaking). The term emerged in modern economic and political terminology to describe commercial or industrial undertakings owned and controlled by a national government.

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🇫🇷French → English

entreprise publique

Transliteration: ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁiz py.blik

"L'État détient une participation majoritaire dans cette entreprise publique."

🇩🇪German → English

staatsliches Unternehmen

Transliteration: ˈʃtaːt.lɪ.çə ˌʊntɐˈnehmən

"Das staatsliche Unternehmen investiert stark in erneuerbare Energien."

🇮🇹Italian → English

impresa pubblica

Transliteration: imˈpreː.za ˈpub.bli.ka

"La nuova legge regola la gestione di ogni impresa pubblica nel settore energetico."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

empresa estatal

Transliteration: emˈpɾesa es.taˈtal

"La empresa estatal anunció nuevas tarifas para el transporte público."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

empresa estatal

Transliteration: ẽˈpɾe.zɐ iʃ.tɐˈtaɫ

"O governo anunciou a reestruturação da principal empresa estatal de petróleo."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

राजकीय उपक्रम

Transliteration: rajkiya upkram

"सरकार कई घाटे में चल रहे राजकीय उपक्रमों का निजीकरण करने पर विचार कर रही है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

国有企业

Transliteration: guó yǒu qǐ yè

"这家国有企业在国民经济中发挥着重要作用。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

국영기업

Transliteration: gugyeong gieop

"정부는 공공 서비스를 제공하기 위해 여러 국영기업을 운영하고 있습니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

国営企業

Transliteration: kokuei kigyō

"その国営企業は国内の主要なインフラを管理しています。"

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