MEANING
Extending beyond individual nations, especially through shared institutions with authority above national governments.
Use it for
describing authority operating above the national level; distinguishing shared higher-level institutions from intergovernmental cooperation; analyzing rules that cross national spheres of controlDistinguishes arrangements beyond individual nations, especially authority above national governments, from simple cooperation between them. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- supranational authority
- supranational institution
- supranational governance
On the page
The comparison asks whether the body exercises supranational authority or merely coordinates decisions made by member governments.
The policy analysis traces how supranational rules interact with domestic administrative practices.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- supranational
Usage notes
Adjective: supranational authority, supranational institution. Normally non-gradable in the authority-level use. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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