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- adjective Having some characteristics of an
public system or organization
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Examples
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A quasipublic entity like the Tennessee Valley Authority or Amtrak, the bank would make loans to fund transportation projects that were important to the nation as a whole.
Move It! Robert Puentes 2011
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The project also will get about $72 million in financing from Harvard, and another $106.2 million in loans from the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, according to the quasipublic agency.
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These quasipublic spaces are notorious for leaving unclear who's responsible for what.
Occupy Wall Street's Crony Capitalism L. Gordon Crovitz 2011
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The absence of quasipublic parks explains why similar Occupy efforts failed in Washington, Chicago and Trenton, N.J., where police quickly removed protesters camping out in parks.
Occupy Wall Street's Crony Capitalism L. Gordon Crovitz 2011
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ALBANY — A committee of the New York state Assembly says the agency that oversees more than 700 public authorities in New York needs statutory authority to impose fines on the quasipublic entities that fail to report their borrowing, bonus payments or other activities.
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The buying started early in the session after the New York Times reported that the Bush administration is considering whether to assume responsibility for the quasipublic companies.
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Add a crisis in confidence in Washington's favorite quasipublic companies and what we're getting is a rout for taxpayers, especially those who kept their heads during the housing mania.
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The problem "showed us we need much better wind forecasting tools," said Kent Saathoff, vice president of system operations at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a quasipublic, nonprofit corporation that operates most of the state's high-voltage transmission system.
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Many of the underutilized schools are clustered in Boston, the Cape, and Western Massachusetts, areas where enrollment has dropped dramatically over the last decade, according to the report by the Massachusetts School Building Authority, a quasipublic agency chaired by Steven Grossman, state treasurer.
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By 2020, better than one in four Massachusetts workers will be 55 or over, requiring employers to manage rapidly aging workforces, according to a study by the Commonwealth Corp., the state's quasipublic workforce development agency.
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