administrative division
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- noun
- /ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪtɪv dɪˈvɪʒən/
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división administrativa
- China is divided into 34 administrative divisions that include provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.
Examples
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There are numerous international institutions with regional affiliates or with administrative divisions along regional lines.
Academic text (1994) -
Briefly, China is divided into 34 administrative divisions: 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, and four municipalities that are directly under the Central Government, along with two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau).
Academic text (2008) -
This tendency is reflected in the typical business school's administrative division into departments of accounting, economics, management, and marketing.
Academic text (1997) -
The reforms that followed ended culturally based administrative divisions in the country and placed the country under one uniform administrative unit.
Academic text (2006) -
This subset was created using existing geographical administrative divisions, such as suburbs or districts.
Academic text (2017) -
Eventually, there will be four Jesuit provinces (administrative divisions) in the United States instead of ten.
Blog text (10) -
One of the outcomes of the 1993 Oslo accords was a temporary administrative division of the West Bank into three zones.
Blog text (17) -
With the strengthening of the individual state's social and economic functions, these somewhat arbitrary administrative divisions assumed greater significance in the day-to-day existence of Andinos.
Academic text (1996) -
As a result of such introspection, some alterations have occurred: for example, Ethiopia has recently introduced a new system of administrative divisions that will attempt to accommodate its 70 ethnic groups.
Academic text (2002) -
In the United States, each state is considered an administrative division with its own local government.
Synonyms
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3.2
A part of a larger organization that has its own work
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2.1
An area of a country with its own local government, like in France
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A part of a country like a state or province that a local leader runs
An area managed by local government for public services
An area set up for local government, like a region or district
A part of an organization that manages specific tasks and services
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently composed: 'administrative' (relating to administration) modifies 'division' (a part or section), yielding a part/region set aside for administrative purposes. This is a regular compositional pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Administrative division comes from the simple idea of splitting a country into parts: administrative means about running or 'managing' things and division means a split into areas. So it means a part of a country or city set up for the government to 'manage', a 'region' or 'district'.