Ministate

Origin

- + state

Full definition of ministate

Noun

1. A very small country or self-governing region, especially one that lacks international recognition
• 2007, June 13, Marlise Simons, War Crimes Tribunal Sentences Serb to 35 Years, Milan Martic, 52, listened motionless as ...
  the three judges called him “one of the most important and influential political figures” of the Serbian ministate of Krajina, which broke off from Croatia in the early 1990s as Yugoslavia fell apart.

Anagrams

• intimates