regional

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

   • Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
   • regional playoffs
2. 2

   Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.

   • regional rainfall patterns
3. 3

   Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.

   • Near-synonym: locoregional
   • regional nerve block
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   1. 4

      Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts which are not metropolitan, but…

      Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.

      • The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
      • HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.
   2. 5

      An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.

      • In the CPE^([Customer Premises Equipment]) market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.
      • Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
      • Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […]

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