sub-countyn.
/ˈsʌbˌkaʊnti/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌkaʊn(t)i/ A division or part of a county; an area within a county.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > other small administrative divisions
sokenc1030
sokec1350
township1414
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sub-countya1832
a1832 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) X. 510/2 Making or amending territorial divisions—counties and sub-counties—parishes and sub-parishes.
1867 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 5 219 To those acquainted with the ‘Cybele’, it is not necessary to say that Britain is divided into 18 provinces and 112 counties and sub-counties.
1923 Reclam. Rec. Mar. 101/2 When enough have ‘joined up’ in a certain territory, we organize them into subcounty or district associations.
1961 Irish Times 17 Aug. 5/7 A territorial organisation covering Dublin city and county has now been established. It is divided into ‘sub-counties’, each of which has a portion of the city and a portion of the county.
2011 A. Branch Displacing Human Rights iii. 95 In the mid-2000s, the aid agencies launched a ‘camp management’ strategy and parceled out Acholiland, subcounty by subcounty, among themselves.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to do the nobby
- to do the nose trick
- to do the other thing
- to do the outside edge
- to do the polite
- to do the right thing for the wrong reason
- to do the right thing for the wrong reasons
- to do the rosy
- to do the rough
- to do the rounds
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- to do the smalls
- to do the sums
- to do the talking
- to endorse over
- to endue her gorge, her meat
- to enervate the force of
- to enface upon
- to enface words upon
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- to enforce open
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- to enfranchise a copyhold or leasehold estate
- to engage a combat