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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly Australia and US) One who, or that which, is from another state..
The local operators and VicRail are not obtaining the business anyway; the interstaters are getting it and they are not putting 1 cent back into the coffers of Victoria.
It is alleged that a male child care worker from Canberra was targeted for arrest after refusing police entrance to an area of parkland where hundreds of interstaters were camped.
But the only ships that came to salute the rusty hulks of a couple of old trawlers pensioned off against the jetty were an interstater once a fortnight, smartly painted Norwegian freighters in the apple season, and drab, dusty wheat ships…
I had to remind myself every time I entered a highway; 'you are a local driver, not an interstater — take the next exit!'
Use interstater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Interstater means (chiefly Australia and US) One who, or that which, is from another state..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The local operators and VicRail are not obtaining the business anyway; the interstaters are getting it and they are not putting 1 cent back into the coffers of Victoria.
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