regional

CEFRB1

/ˈɹiː.d͡ʒə.nəl/

adjective

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adjective
Related to a particular area or part of a country.
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adjective
Extra detail
Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

Examples

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.
Services available at a local and regional level

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

Also pronounced

/ˈɹid͡ʒ.nəl/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
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.

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In context

Do you have any regional dishes?
Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
regional playoffs

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The blank weather patterns predictably affect only the coastal towns of the state.

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The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Austra...
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.
1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld, page 125
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.
2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44
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 […]
2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook, page 12
The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.
1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, volume Issue 71, page 94

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Origin

adjective

From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.

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The blank— weather patterns predictably affect only the coastal towns of the state.

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adjective

The blank weather patterns predictably affect only the coastal towns of the state.