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subregional

subregional

1 5.7
Of a smaller area inside a larger region
  • adjective
  • /ˌsʌbˈriːdʒənl/
translation icon : subregional
  • The committee focused on improving infrastructure in subregional areas to enhance connectivity and trade.
  • subregional grouping
  • subregional agreements
  • subregional scale

Examples

  • Within a subregional context, the use of the term security community has two specific meanings.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The other subregional zone that has been discussed for eastern ASEAN is called the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA).

    Academic text (1995)
  • The relative importance of regional and subregional landscape factors.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The first is to plan and implement a common regional environmental strategy incorporating global, regional, and subregional pollution problems.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Making public security missions even more challenging on a bilateral or subregional scale is the issue of state sovereignty.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Important as it is, however, ARF, as it currently stands, is not equipped to address specific regional or subregional issues.

    Academic text (2001)
  • There, the idea of a subregional grouping among the four countries received a gentle nudge forward.

    Academic text (1998)
  • However, implementation of specific policies was reserved for individual countries or for subregional agreements between countries that sought greater integration of their respective economies.

    Academic text (1991)
  • To address this expanded agenda, the declaration calls for ambitious measures to strengthen bilateral and subregional security and defense agreements and cooperation.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Four key factors were identified that account for the observed diversity in regional, subregional, and actor support for certification: dominant forestry problems, public policy responses, land ownership patterns, and market orientation.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

subnational
vssubregional
1 6.4

About part of a country, like a state or province

applies to smaller areas within a larger region, not only within a country
intraregional
vssubregional
1 6.6

Happening inside one region, for example between its parts

refers to a smaller area inside a larger region

How Local

local
1.0
subregional
1 5.7
regional
521 3.5
national
2.0
global
2.7

Surface Forms

subregional positive

Morphology

subregional = regional (transparent) = sub + region + al

A straightforward prefixation of 'regional' by 'sub-' meaning 'below/part of', producing the expected meaning.

Etymology

Subregional comes from sub- meaning 'under' or 'below' and region meaning 'area'. So, subregional describes something that belongs to a smaller area inside a larger region.