parastatal

From para- +‎ statal.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paɹəˈsteɪtəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈsteɪdəl/

parastatal (plural parastatals)

1. (chiefly Africa) A company, agency, or intergovernmental organization that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.

• quango

parastatal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to such a company or group.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 918:

     ‘Parastatal’ organizations – local councils, representatives of business, the Red Cross – had been increasingly filling the gap left by the government's maladministration [...].

parastatal (feminine singular parastatale, masculine plural parastataux, feminine plural parastatales)

1. parastatal