| 单词 | division |
| 释义 | division (dɪvɪʒən ) Word forms: divisions 1. uncountable noun [oft with poss] B2 The division of a large unit into two or more distinct parts is the act of separating it into these parts. ...Czechoslovakia's division into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. [+ into] 2. uncountable noun B2 The division of something among people or things is its separation into parts which are distributed among the people or things. The current division of labor between workers and management will alter. Synonyms: sharing, distribution, assignment, rationing 3. uncountable noun B2 Division is the arithmetical process of dividing one number into another number. I taught my daughter how to do division at the age of six. 4. variable noun A division is a significant distinction or argument between two groups, which causes the two groups to be considered as very different and separate. The division between the prosperous west and the impoverished east remains. [+ between/among] Synonyms: disagreement, split, breach, feud 5. countable noun B2 In a large organization, a division is a group of departments whose work is done in the same place or is connected with similar tasks. ...the bank's Latin American division. ...the sales division. Synonyms: department, group, head, sector 6. countable noun A division is a group of military units which fight as a single unit. Several armoured divisions are being moved from Germany. 7. countable noun In the British Parliament, a division is a vote where the Members of Parliament go into separate rooms in order to record their vote. 8. countable noun B2 In some sports, such as football, baseball, and basketball, a division is one of the groups of teams which make up a league. The teams in each division are considered to be approximately the same standard, and they all play against each other during the season. Villa had just been relegated from the First Division. ...the Scottish Premier Division leaders, Dundee United. Quotations: If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand Bible: St. Mark He who divides gets the worst share Collocations: class division It was the 1970s, but one fan clearly thought the class division the show depicted was marvellous. Times, Sunday Times He suggests that class division was as important in the war as class cohesion. The Times Literary Supplement When the panic-stricken family realise 'we're up to our necks in it', the message about class division still seems bitterly relevant today. The Sun He asked whether it was a 'class division' or 'more ingrained, institutional and insidious'. The Sun He added 'a class division has opened up within the family'. The Sun In the bank's corporate division, 1.82 per cent of its loans were loss-making, compared with 1.58 per cent last year. Times, Sunday Times His previous roles include head of banking and finance, as well as leading the corporate division. Times, Sunday Times Alongside the investment platform business, it has a range of multi-manager investment funds, a foreign currency transfer service and a corporate division, which administers company pensions and invests charity assets. Times, Sunday Times Or the champion may merely make a strong case for a new corporate division to a resistant board of directors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was developed as an alternative to the corporate division of labor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If it can create division, it will do so. Times, Sunday Times They cannot, because by their very nature these schools create division. Times, Sunday Times However, the remaining in this area retained a certain amount of political autonomy, which would create division in the city that remains to this day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A meeting that could easily have created divisions brought us all closer together. Times, Sunday Times Sport can, of course, create divisions. Times, Sunday Times It was then recovered and put on display at the division headquarters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1994, the division headquarters reorganized as a mechanized infantry division headquarters, a designation which it retained until 2008. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The theater force may task-organize them to corps or division headquarters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A triangular division generally had its infantry organized into three regiments, either directly controlled by the division headquarters or under a single brigade command. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This task force comprised two provisional battalions formed of division headquarters and technical service troops, the division band, the replacement company, and other miscellaneous troops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By the late 1960s he was a division manager. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The push comes after the tycoon said the recession meant he could get 'first division managers for third division prices'. The Sun He was presently rewarded with a pitiful salary of just 7,200, lower than some third division managers, and understandably wanted a rise. Times, Sunday Times The division of responsibility between the two parties may inject conflict into that crucial domain. Times, Sunday Times There was considerable division of responsibility, however, among high level agencies, financial institutions, state trading corporations, local export companies, and provincial and regional government bodies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was no clear division of responsibility; the choice of court was left to the plaintiff. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This fact also bears on the division of responsibility issue below. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What should be the division of responsibilities between the government and the market in the post-crisis economy? Times, Sunday Times The linguistic division reflects the split from which the book gleans so much of its interest and appeal. The Times Literary Supplement This division reflects the number of available seats and thus the competitiveness of each specialty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This division reflects differences in the mineralogical and chemical composition of microfossil remains (and therefore in the methods of fossil recovery) rather than any strict taxonomic or ecological distinctions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two have been division rivals since 2005. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This series pitted a pair of teams that were former division rivals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Due to the change, division rivals now played each other 17 or more times each season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each team will play its four division rivals 19 games (up from 15-18 in 2012) for a total of 76 games. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each team played a home-and-away series against each of its division rivals and one game against each team in the other division for a total of ten regular season games. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It proved a difficult third day for both sides trying to keep alive outside hopes of the first division title. Times, Sunday Times United had won the first division title in 1956 and 1957, but had faltered since. Times,Sunday Times It was the third consecutive division title for the team. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The team went 71-68 and finished the second half 4030 in a tie for the division title but missed the playoff on a tiebreaker. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of them will win at least two games and thereby clinch the division title with a record of either 90-72 or 89-73. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So a division winner with a losing record would have a lower pick after a 10-6 team that didn't make the playoffs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The format for each conference playoff consists of one division winner playing against the other division's second-place club, with winners advancing to the conference final. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once the strike ended, baseball decided to add an extra layer to the playoffs by having the first-half division winner face the second-half winner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The division winner with the best record in the conference received a bye in the first round. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If there was tie in the standings, a playoff would be held to determine the division winner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 8,000 job cuts will affect full-time staff in its 160,000-strong electronics division. The Sun The bigger, flabbier electronics division supposedly came up with nothing of its own. Times, Sunday Times The company said that it was looking for potential acquisitions to boost its electronics division. Times, Sunday Times However, new products have helped the electronics division. Times, Sunday Times It has also set up a unit to find commercial applications for the group's technology, and has an electronics division. Times, Sunday Times Next year will be the last to end with automatic promotion to the elite division (assuming the winning club's ground and 'business plan' are adequate). Times, Sunday Times But they have since clawed their way back up the elite division and have improved quickly. The Sun As a result, the elite division could sail on blithely, with or without the masses in the stands. Times,Sunday Times Their elevation to the elite division came after 110 years in football's backwaters. Times, Sunday Times Based on its fighting record, it was an elite division that also had a reputation for fighting a clean war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When she joined in 2005, the enforcement division employed about 300 staff and had levied fines of only 43.8 million during the previous three years. Times, Sunday Times As with the original inquiry, it will be conducted by its enforcement division. Times,Sunday Times But depending on what it finds, the investigation could be passed on to the regulator's powerful enforcement division. Times, Sunday Times The recruitment of more highly paid lawyers and investigators to the enforcement division has surprised industry insiders because it comes against an uncertain backdrop for the department. Times, Sunday Times He has recently added a new law enforcement division to his department. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was harder going in its engineering division, focused on much larger programmes such as oil and gas installations. Times, Sunday Times The company warned last year that its engineering division might be hit, as there was a dearth of early stage wins that would then lead to larger contracts. Times, Sunday Times This was because of a trading update that indicated growth next year in its engineering division could slow. Times, Sunday Times He spent about two years in the companys manufacturing engineering division, developing quality-control techniques and refining manufacturing processes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It consists of botanical resource division, zoological resource division, environmental forestry resource division, applied biological chemical food division, bioresources engineering division, and agricultural economy division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sales in that division jumped by 21 per cent, but revenue from the company's television, films and entertainment division fell by 28 per cent. Times,Sunday Times The company will now focus on turning around its loss making news and entertainment division. Times, Sunday Times The series generated 35 per cent of the company's entertainment division revenue in the second quarter, compared with 11 per cent last year. Globe and Mail Revenue at the company's filmed entertainment division rose to $1.96 billion from $1.91 billion a year ago as television revenue climbed to $1.07 billion from $1.04 billion. Times, Sunday Times The company, which employs about 1,500 people, has announced a restructuring that will lead to the closure of its entertainment division and some of its facilities. Times, Sunday Times It was a society built, in modern times, on ethnic division. Times, Sunday Times That attitude was one of the few shared by politicians of all tribes and classes in a country riven by deep ethnic divisions. Times, Sunday Times They are ignored and told little about their rights or how to counter the stoking of ethnic divisions by venal politicians. Times, Sunday Times Political freedoms must be restored, speech must be free and ethnic divisions healed. Times, Sunday Times Ethnic divisions are also fuelling the conflict. ST Historical factors have played a malign role: apartheid exacerbated divisions of wealth and power and blighted subsequent attempts to reduce inequality. Times, Sunday Times Pandemic illness and class have always intertwined, exacerbating divisions and feeding friction. Times,Sunday Times All this has exacerbated divisions on the board. Globe and Mail The new programme exacerbated divisions in the group, and in 1983, with membership down to 510, democratic centralism was re-imposed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The engine of growth was the corporate finance division, which built a reputation for initiating and advising on some of the most high-profile hostile takeover bids of the decade. Times, Sunday Times Revenue fell 14 per cent to 184 million and it made 40 redundancies and closed its media finance division. Times, Sunday Times Its principal finance division, which provides seed funds, fared less well, delivering a 2 million loss. Times, Sunday Times It has brought together about 100 staff from across its consulting, audit, tax and corporate finance divisions to create a dedicated 'cleantech' group. Times, Sunday Times The cuts will be in its high street, group operations, commercial banking and finance divisions. The Sun Each division head oversees the academic, arts, and athletic programs for the grade levels under their care. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He added that the new division heads would be expected to follow a 'clearly defined' framework that had been set out for the company. Times, Sunday Times I wanted to go back to meeting with just the division heads. Christianity Today He ended up heading the division, 'not just a numbers guy but a business leader'. Times, Sunday Times Each division head has an administrative assistant. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To help to heal division and ease inequality. Times, Sunday Times He wants to see politicians emerge as moral leaders and heal divisions. Times,Sunday Times He speaks of his wish to 'heal divisions', while at the same time using language that can only foster further feelings of social disquiet. Times, Sunday Times These efforts have failed to heal divisions; and, in truth, they deserved to fail. Times, Sunday Times It also means leading by example to heal divisions within politics itself. Times, Sunday Times He dominated the heavyweight division and for four years was undisputed champion. The Sun In the heavyweight division you're not relying on reflexes so much. The Sun Right now, we have control of the heavyweight division. Times, Sunday Times He reignited the heavyweight division - a big puncher who went for the knockouts. The Sun This guy was an all-state wrestler in the heavyweight division. Christianity Today This moment of deep ideological division will likely see the return, right when we need them, of the thinkers and talkers who can bridge the emotional divide. Smithsonian Mag Ideological division remains a key element in all explanations for the coming of war and for the implacable resistance demonstrated by both sides throughout its course. The Times Literary Supplement The party began to experience ideological division among its followers as it entered the 1970s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Indeed, their nourishing of radical individualism and heterogeneous values made the sects distant cousins of modern ideological divisions. The Times Literary Supplement Ideological divisions include issues over the speed and direction of reform, and whether the role of the ulema should be increased or reduced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And this has been a cause of huge internal division. Times, Sunday Times First, he foretold the national destruction which such internal division merely invited. Christianity Today We had so much internal division, it was nasty. Christianity Today To this end, we believe we must resist any lapse into introspection and internal division. Times, Sunday Times Their internal division lines are different. Times, Sunday Times Overseas sales have doubled over two years to 26m in 2012, following increased investment in its international division. Times, Sunday Times The company yesterday outlined plans to double the size of its international division. Times, Sunday Times Volume sales of fizzy drinks were up 3 per cent, however, while its international division posted an 8 per cent rise in volumes. Times, Sunday Times The group's international division also returned to underlying growth, although it has been affected by currency fluctuations. Times, Sunday Times He deserved the money because of his work in driving up the market capitalisation of the international division by more than 1 billion. Times, Sunday Times There are competitions for the senior division and junior division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2006, the tournament was divided into two divisions: a junior division and a university division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She competed in her first national championships in 1998 and placed sixth on beam in the junior division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The annual competition has two separate divisions: the junior division for students up to age thirteen, and the senior division for students fourteen through eighteen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Students that are below age 14 participate in the junior division, while students 15 and older participate in the senior division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The job losses flow from a recent overhaul of the asset management division. Times, Sunday Times Studies were initiated for spinning off the bad assets and selling the important investment management division. Times, Sunday Times It declined to comment on whether it would keep the asset management division as part of any deal. Times, Sunday Times Compensation at the wealth management division was down, despite the fierce competition for good brokers. Times, Sunday Times The bank's wealth management division made pre-tax income of $691 million compared with $597 million in the first quarter of last year. Times, Sunday Times She arrived as a planner in the marketing division, later moving to the sales division and working in a variety of roles. Times, Sunday Times The company also enjoyed what it called its 'best ever year' in its refining and marketing division. Times, Sunday Times A strong performance in its refining and marketing division offset these factors to deliver underlying profits of $2.3 billion, excluding the divestment impairments. Times,Sunday Times While profit at the division that mines metals and minerals was hit by the slump in copper and coal prices, the marketing division, which trades about 90 commodities, improved markedly. Times, Sunday Times In total, that represented a $1 billion drop in costs during the first quarter, with about twothirds of the reduction coming in the refining and marketing division, the company said. Times, Sunday Times First, there has been a glaring failure in the management of the corporation's news division. Times, Sunday Times The news division, which employs about 2,000 journalists, has to find savings of 5 per cent a year for the next five years. Times, Sunday Times The cuts will be made in the news division, which employs around 8,400 people including 5,000 journalists. The Sun Around a quarter of the car allowance perk, 226,000, goes to senior managers in the news division. The Sun He worked mainly with the news division, tightening up their standards and producing specials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its online division has been by far the worst performer. Times, Sunday Times Much of the robust performance was driven by a sharp growth in its online division, where sales increased by 41 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Other assets, beginning with its online division, could follow. Times, Sunday Times It reported strong growth in its online division, which was up by 118 per cent in the first half - online sales account for 8 per cent of the business. Times, Sunday Times The online division has proved more challenging. Times, Sunday Times As had been the case since 1996, there remained a wide partisan division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Congress, however, remains riven by age-old partisan divisions. Times,Sunday Times National polls show deeply partisan divisions on impeachment, which have not changed despite weeks of public hearings. Times,Sunday Times But there were stark partisan divisions. Times,Sunday Times But that's the transcendent and healing nature of golf, which effortlessly rises above partisan divisions. Times, Sunday Times The company's music publishing division had a strong first half and was expected to show growth. Times, Sunday Times At its publishing division, sales tumbled 26% as it dropped various loss-making contracts. Times, Sunday Times However, there was an 18 per cent rise in revenues at the digital real estate services unit and full-year revenues at the publishing division were up 5 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Its academic publishing division recorded a slight drop in sales to 164 million and its business intelligence business recorded a near-6 per cent fall to 161 million. Times, Sunday Times The publishing division reported a profit of $85 million. Times, Sunday Times A country held back by its education system, its regional divisions and its class obsession. Times, Sunday Times In that way, regional divisions do have a new edge to them. Times, Sunday Times The system works fine when the 45 mutually owned regional divisions and the heads of the holding company agree. Globe and Mail Since then, it has undergone a complex restructuring to unite its regional divisions into one holding company. Times, Sunday Times Districts are grouped together into regional divisions served by a regional court, which hears more serious cases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Revenues at the retail division fell 6 per cent to $7.8 billion. Times, Sunday Times One system was being used by the retail division for customer bookings, another by tour operators that work for the company. Times, Sunday Times Its retail division turned an operating profit of 37.3 million, which compared with a 71.4 million loss in the same period in 2013. Times, Sunday Times More problematic during the past year has been the international retail division, where like-for-like sales fell by 1.3 per cent. Times, Sunday Times The retail division recorded a 1.1 per cent rise in like-for-like sales, its best performance since 2008. Times, Sunday Times Of the 22 revenue blocks in the viluppuram district, 4 blocks comes under this revenue division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a revenue division in the district. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It belongs to the kondapi revenue division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although they may on occasion share the same area with a subdivision of a revenue divisions, known as revenue blocks, the two are distinct. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has a separate division that supplies recruitment services to the construction industry. Times, Sunday Times Established in 1970, the campus includes three separate division buildings, athletic complexes, fine arts annex and a common student center. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The division commander at that time reassembled the separate division assets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They felt a separate division would be best to perform these functions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Governance of the royal residence was moved into a separate division of government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I felt a sharp division between my eight-hour working world and my reading. The Times Literary Supplement The reality was one of sharp division. Times, Sunday Times These departments aspire to transcend sharp division between politics and economics and to create a synergy between the two. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was the first sharp division in desk manufacturing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Salmon maintains a sharp division between semantics and pragmatics (speech acts). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We know we've enough in this club to win this division. The Sun But they don't win the division. Christianity Today United played some great stuff last season and if they can get off to a good start, have the capabilities to win this division. Times, Sunday Times I mean, this might be our best opportunity to win the division in the next few years. Globe and Mail However, this was not enough to win the division. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 部门 Japanese: 分割 |
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