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stateside adjective adverb

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Definition

related to the US; in or towards the US
a stateside job
Some girls dream of finding an American husband to transport them stateside (= to the United States).

(Definition of stateside adjective/adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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