political unit vs state

state vs political unit

political unit and state both are nouns.

political unit is not a verb while state is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political unit	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, state is a hyponym of political unit; that is, state is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than political unit:

political unit: a unit with political responsibilities
state: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Other hyponyms of political unit include advocacy group, lobby, lobby group, pressure group, special-interest group, special interest, special interest group, third house, body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, Holy Roman Empire, union, cadre, cell, amphictyony, lunatic fringe, revolutionary group.

political unit (noun)	state (noun)
a unit with political responsibilities	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

political unit (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

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