"statelet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From state + -let.",
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      "form": "statelets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009 January 14, Steven Erlanger, Michael Slackman, “Israel Says Hamas Is Damaged, Not Destroyed”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Egypt talks to Hamas but is not eager to see the radical Islamic group succeed in running a small statelet next door.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 12, in Moneyland, →ISBN, page 182:",
          "text": "In 2014, the European statelet of Liechtenstein followed the Swiss lead and returned $227 million that had been stolen by [Sani] Abacha's son […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 2, Mike Nesbitt, “Divisive Border poll is no recipe for unity”, in The Irish Times:",
          "text": "Ms McDonald’s party has long argued that Northern Ireland is not working – a “failed statelet” being their chosen description.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state"
      ],
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          "nation-state",
          "nation-state"
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        "(sometimes derogatory) A very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsteɪtlɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "statelet"
}

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        "2": "state",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From state + -let.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "statelet (plural statelets)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009 January 14, Steven Erlanger, Michael Slackman, “Israel Says Hamas Is Damaged, Not Destroyed”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Egypt talks to Hamas but is not eager to see the radical Islamic group succeed in running a small statelet next door.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 12, in Moneyland, →ISBN, page 182:",
          "text": "In 2014, the European statelet of Liechtenstein followed the Swiss lead and returned $227 million that had been stolen by [Sani] Abacha's son […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 2, Mike Nesbitt, “Divisive Border poll is no recipe for unity”, in The Irish Times:",
          "text": "Ms McDonald’s party has long argued that Northern Ireland is not working – a “failed statelet” being their chosen description.",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state"
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈsteɪtlɪt/"
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