"semi-state" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1950 March 2, Edward Richards-Orpen, State and Semi-State Companies—Motion. Seanad Éireann debates Vol.37 No.9 p.5 c.692",
          "text": "I think it would be agreed by all that in the last ten or 15 years we have seen a remarkable growth of these State and semi-State companies, by which I mean companies in which our Minister for Finance holds shares and very often holds the dominating number of shares."
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          "ref": "2007 October 29, Patricia McDonagh, “Top 10 bosses in semi-state firms cost total of €2m a year”, in Irish Independent",
          "text": "TAXPAYERS are shelling out more than €2m annually to pay for the salaries of 10 high-profile CEOs employed in commercial semi-state bodies.",
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        "state-owned but managed independently along commercial lines"
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        "(Ireland) state-owned but managed independently along commercial lines"
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          "ref": "1896, Cassell's Family Magazine, page 700",
          "text": "There now remains the fourth side of the square, which is devoted to the state and semi-state carriages. The semi-state carriages, eleven in number, are chiefly of modern make.",
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          "ref": "1940, Larz Anderson, “An Embassy to Japan”, in Letters and Journals of a Diplomat, Fleming H. Revell, page 380",
          "text": "Soon a full-state carriage arrived, followed by two semi-state carriages, [...]",
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          "ref": "a. 2017, Royal Collection Trust, \"Windsor Castle > The Semi-State Rooms\" (website accessed 19 Oct 2017)",
          "text": "These Semi-State Rooms are among the most richly decorated interiors in the Castle and are used by The Queen for official entertaining."
        }
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        "ceremonial, but somewhat less ornate, formal, or prestigious than would be classed as \"state\""
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        },
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        "state-owned but managed independently along commercial lines"
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        },
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        }
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