regional
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈriːdʒənl/
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regional
- Check your public library or bookstore for regional and city magazines that focus on where you live.
- a regional government
- a regional magazine
- a regional director
But you've got this other regional power in Russia growing.
- But you've got this other regional power in Russia growing.
- It's about the regional behaviour of the weather.
- So this has to be resolved within a regional agreement.
- And we have, you know, regional governments.
- When they make that change and that decision, those become sweeping regional and national trends.
- And this is a local or regional tragedy.
- Instead of guaranteeing peace, it threatens to escalate small regional disputes into worldwide conflicts.
- And now you have Israel, Iran and a regional conflict.
- It's not obviously great for regional stability.
- A lot of the stress is showing up in regional banks.
Examples
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So this has to be resolved within a regional agreement.
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What is more, there are significant regional variations between the rates of screening.
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And so this this allows for an amount of, of regional change as well.
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And then what happens is now the regional banks are starting to go.
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Let's start with the regional character of these places.
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You want to use a regional representative approach.
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It's about the regional behaviour of the weather.
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The winner of this bee will go on to compete in the regional competition next month.
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Participants included 93 undergraduate students from a regional university in northeast Texas.
Academic text (2011) -
The winner of this bee will go on to compete in the regional competition next month.
Synonyms
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4.6
Related to a particular region or group within a larger area
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3.9
Happening across a whole area
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6.6
Happening inside one region, for example between its parts
Antonyms
Compounds
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6.7
The right of local governments to make some decisions without the national government, like education and health
- Archaic
Long-term inflammation of part of the small intestine causing diarrhea, belly pain, fever, and weight loss
- Archaic
A long-term illness where the last part of the small intestine becomes swollen and causes stomach pain and diarrhea
A region that has its own government separate from the national government
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Regional comes from the word region, which means 'area' or part of a country, and the ending -al means 'related to'. So, regional describes something that belongs to or is true for a particular area rather than the whole country.