interstate : Idioms & Phrases

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interstate commerce

  • n. commerce that involves transportation of articles of commerce across state lines [U.S.].
Webster 1913

interstate commerce commission

  • noun a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995
    ICC.
    • the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency
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  • The governmental commision charged with making and enforcing regulations concerning interstate commerce.
Webster 1913

interstate highway

  • noun one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States
    interstate.
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