Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving several states.
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- adjective Involving multiple
states (in all senses)
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Examples
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Given that the threshold issue in multistate tax is whether the state has the constitutional authority to tax a given taxpayer, bad advice often leads to taxpayers you would, incorrectly, call "deadbeats."
Amnesty, but a real wallop if you don't come clean (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Last year, 41 "multistate" insurers bit the dust, down slightly from 1989 but far more than in any other recent year.
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But by that time, he had used a special "multistate" license to get a job as a traveling nurse at a hospital 1,200 miles away in
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The case decided Monday dates from 2004, when Connecticut led a multistate coalition in suing five power companies alleged to generate 650 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Court Blocks States' Greenhouse-Gas Suit Jess Bravin 2011
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A multistate group of regulators at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an alliance of the states' top insurance officials, also is focusing on the practices.
'Death Policy' Probe Grows Leslie Scism 2011
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The case decided Monday dates from 2004, when Connecticut led a multistate coalition in suing five power companies alleged to generate 650 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Court Blocks States' Greenhouse-Gas Suit Jess Bravin 2011
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Some states are considering separate lawsuits and still others may join the multistate suit.
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He also took a lead role in the multistate probe into alleged foreclosure abuses by the largest banks in the country, declaring the foreclosure practices used by several companies a "business model built on fraud."
Consumer Bureau, Economic Policy Nominees Clear Senate Panel Maya Jackson Randall 2011
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A multistate group of regulators at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an alliance of the states' top insurance officials, also is focusing on the practices.
'Death Policy' Probe Grows Leslie Scism 2011
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It helped pick up recent outbreaks linked to spinach, peanut butter and hot peppers and is "key to figuring out the causes of big, multistate outbreaks," he says.
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