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Parastatal vs Soe - What's the difference?

parastatal | soe |

As nouns the difference between parastatal and soe

is that parastatal is 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 while soe is a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.

As an adjective parastatal

is pertaining to such a company or group.

parastatal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * quango

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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 [...].

    • soe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55:
    • " no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe -fuls"
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