Usually means: Government excessively controlling personal behavior.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. nanny state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. nanny state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. nanny state: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nanny-state: Wordnik
  5. nanny state: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nanny state: Wiktionary
  7. nanny state, the nanny state: Dictionary.com
  8. Nanny-state, Nanny state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. nanny state: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nanny state: bizterms.net

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nanny State: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (nanny state)

noun:  (derogatory) A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.

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