regionalre‧gion‧al /ˈriːdʒənəl/ ●●● S1 W2 AWL adjective [usually before noun] 
local and regional government regional variations in farming practice a slight regional accent—regionally adverb: goods sold locally and regionally
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Nuclear programs are a threat to regional and world peace.
- A stream of regional studies followed throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s.
- Ethnic, religious, class, regional and national antipathies have all been known to find expression through football and football support.
- Ian Vickers, 33, becomes regional planner and Patrick Boyle, 24, has been appointed design and build manager.
- In a short period of rapid theoretical development the emergent core of regional planning principles and practices strengthened considerably.
- The findings are likely to generate important implications in terms of competitiveness, regional and labour market impact and regulatory policy.
- There is also a regional dimension to this problem.
- They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education.
WORD SETS
abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The agency has a network of regional offices.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=from a particular area of a country)· If you have a regional accent, don’t try to hide it.
· In Northern Africa, there have been important regional conferences on education.
(=development of particular regions of a country or area)· a programme of regional development in Eastern Europe
· the major cultural differences between the west and the east
· The Green Party increased its share of the vote in the French regional elections.
The agency has a network of regional offices.· About 40 possible sites were inventoried and then proposed to the appropriate regional authorities for an opinion.· Funding for this network will be provided by the three ministries, regional authorities, and network users.· The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery.· An influential minority report by Derek Senior advocated a map involving solely two-tier regional authorities, 35 in number.· There are 8 regional authorities and 47 second-tier districts.· Transport does not appear as a separate item, but as part of the overall block grant to regional authorities.· Ministers are expected to delay approving the Hastings eastern and western bypasses despite the regional authority voting in favour last month.
· So are those of the best regional banks.· Earnings at some major regional banks suffered from higher-than-expected provisions for problem loans.· Underneath them stand thousands of weaker regional banks, mutual banks and credit unions, as well as non-bank banks such as leasing firms.· Drug, telephone, oil, communication-equipment and regional bank shares paced the advance.· He transformed the Midland from a successful regional bank into one of the country's largest institutions.· Lomak Petroleum; and First Union Corp., regional bank.· Data are captured partly through the computerized payroll system, and partly by terminal input at regional banks.· The network of regional banks is being decentralised, in order to give local managers more freedom and accountability.
· The Division's businesses are reviewed on a regional basis.· There will be about 15 management heads along product lines, with specialization on a regional basis, depending on demand.· That number is enough to operate on a regional basis.· Such networks are inevitably built up on a regional basis because the finds are usually confined to a limited geographical region.· There are hints of preferred shapes on a regional basis, but there is little distinct typological development discernible.· Indeed categorizing data on a regional basis can conceal almost as much as it reveals.
· It has also been severely affected by debt and regional conflicts.· A force that can handle two major regional conflicts can be funded in several ways.· Losses associated directly and indirectly with regional conflict between 1980 and 1988 are estimated at US$16 to 17 billion.· Other regional conflicts were immigrating, too.· The potential for the fighting to spill over into a wider regional conflict has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity.· The Helsinki summit, arranged at very short notice, dealt almost exclusively with the specific issue of a major regional conflict.· It is easy to get confused about the regional conflicts that have raged in the area.· The defence doctrine pointed out the risks to the country posed by regional conflicts in the former Soviet Union.
· An official at Zaporizha's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately.· Residential Homes provided by the regional councils are known as Part iv accommodation.· At present, the further education authorities take as much advantage as possible of the economies of scale through the regional councils.· Signs exist to make driving safer, not to keep the regional council amused.· This week the local regional council, Lothian, revealed that over £25 million was outstanding.· Accident prevention schemes are also planned and regional councils will be invited to suggest schemes costing up to £1m.· It also established a 150-member National Assembly elected from among the members of eight directly elected regional councils.
· Our proposed regional development agencies will also provide help to areas particularly affected.· It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned.· Measures have included the setting up of regional development agencies, private- public partnership schemes and privately organised enterprise trusts.· Crucially, this instability hinders regional development, incites repressive governance, and compounds the poverty on which militancy feeds.· Others will be in centres of regional development, local authorities and commerce.· We will set up and fund new regional development and local enterprise agencies.· Specialised bodies, such as regional development agencies are also extremely important.· Despite their differences, their implications for the sociology of urban and regional development are rather similar.
· There is, however, apart from these regional differences, a similarity about most Scandinavian Medieval architecture.· Within this general pattern we must however be careful to distinguish some important regional differences.· There are enormous regional differences in the fishing industry and they must be recognised.· This is an underestimate and masks great regional differences.· No obvious regional differences in response to ligand were detected in these cultures.· Table 1 o.3 throws some light on regional differences in enterprise saving in 1987.· On the question of regional differences, these studies of financial exchanges suggest that geographical location is rather unimportant.· The only notable factor in determining regional differences was the availability of building materials.
· He has organised a meeting between the regional directors of the major clearing banks and the Federation's North-East members.· Neither he nor his peers were surprised when the regional director asked him to consider a management career.· Ian Frost, regional director of Inntrepreneur, said the leases offered big advantages over the short-term agreements.· Robert Pafford, the regional director, wrote a memo to Dominy discussing the options the Bureau had.· A new united sales team for East Anglia is in place reporting to regional director.· The regional director, Ken Vernon, had revised the repayment contract under political pressure and it was a complete giveaway.· Then the final choice lies with their regional directors.· An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.
· Currently trends are also tending to make each nuclear power station a centre of support and development of the regional economy.· The regional economy has been reorganized so as to distribute tasks and responsibilities equitably.· For centuries cities such as Damascus and Aleppo were at the hub of the regional economy.· Water in Bio2 was diverted from one locality to another like so much federal spending meant to stimulate a regional economy.· Strong regional economies for new developments.· Cleveland: Most indicators showed little change in regional economy from the last beige book Dec. 6.· There is an erosion of the specialized character of regional economies and redundancy of big plants and associated big industrial cities.
· The bomb followed the announcement on Tuesday that early regional elections will be held in May.· His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March.· Full details, he said, would be presented in 1992 after the March regional elections.· Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 percent of the vote.· The most disputed regional elections were cancelled by Hodge but the new elections again led to rightist triumph.· The municipal and new regional elections on 12 November will be the Front's first test.· The man the media call the Cavalier intends to replicate the tactics that won him regional election in April.
· In fact, regional government would have the opposite effect.· Minnesota, the land of rational government, is one of the only places that has created a true regional government.· The killings have damaged relations between the governing Popular party in Madrid and the Basque regional government.· Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.· There is no constitutional precedent for regional government such as that proposed by the Opposition.· Who will they go to if there are regional governments as well?· Now Norwich is a centre for shops and offices, including business, county council and regional government offices.
· An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph.· A spokeswoman for the regional health authority said that 206 people on the two-year list were treated during March.· Now regional health chiefs have decided against funding the service themselves.· Mr. Waldegrave I welcome the steps taken by the West Midlands regional health authority.· To deal with disputes over such matters, regional health authorities will act as conciliators.· Trusts take a much narrower view on long-term needs than regional health authorities, and nursing education is not even an obligation.· The opted-out units are no longer under the direct authority of the regional health authorities but report directly to the Secretary of State.
· Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick.· In 1999, SkyWest, 25 % held by Delta Airlines, ordered 50 Bombardier regional jets.· This was also a record for the world regional jet industry.
· Trade union representatives meet with management regularly at national and regional level at meetings known as Whitley Councils.· These programs differ from those that went before them in that they are largely located at the school district or regional level.· A similar analysis comes from Harvey, although the class alliances are here seen as being at national or regional levels.· Higher education and expanded trade would be available at the regional level.· More significant for Scandinavia was its retreat in 1950 back to limited and relatively non-controversial sectoral coordination at the regional level.· At the regional level, income and expenditure vary considerably.· At a regional level, this meant that the North West and West Midlands were particularly badly affected.· But these changes are not just taking place at regional level.
· Details are available from area managers, regional managers or commercial operations manager Carol McGhie.· We focused on those three initial regional managers then polled some of the neighboring ones.· It is her responsibility to make sure any relevant information is passed on to the regional managers.· The regional managers occupy a crucial role in providing a strategic framework for management of the Teacher Placement Service.· Based at its Newcastle headquarters, Malcolm is regional manager in charge of water quality.· His career also includes twenty two years with the sales force of Stoddard of which he became a regional Manager.
· The local and regional networks were based on the railways with animal power feeding to and distributing from the stations.· The financial health and viability of regional networks varies.· The new fund is intended to establish a regional network of protected areas in seven countries.· State and Campus Networks State and campus networks link into regional networks.· Since March 1989 the regional network has grown to include over 300 research and education renters.· SURAnet, the strategic networking initiative of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, is another large regional network created in 1986.· At the regional network level, Verio continued to consolidate its POPs, closing 11 redundant POPs during the quarter.· That increase is reflected in the number of local, state, and regional networks connected to the network.
· Changes will be more apparent in regional news programmes.· Stuart Prebble, head of Granada's regional news, argues that this is ridiculous.· The eastern regional news programme includes a series of short features screened on the last Wednesday of each month.· But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news.· At present, regional news broadcasts have the tone of a modified sensationalist journalism.
· The head office was responsible for company administration and the regional offices dealt with administration for the firm's 40 sales outlets.· Then there were regional offices, field offices, project offices.· Yorkshire A regional bookshop was opened at the regional office and has made an encouraging start.· Specifically, they complained that the corporate and regional offices often made unreasonable demands on those in the field.· Some staff were offered employment in the sales offices which were geographically closest to their regional office.· The staff of the 49-county San Francisco regional office has been increased from 45 people to 190.· The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff.· Yeewho had managed regional offices of national retail chains for two decades before founding Zhenwas skeptical about branching out into department stores.
· There is now considerable overlap between what district councils are doing and what regional policy is attempting to achieve.· A number of estimates have been made of the effects of regional policy in terms of new jobs created directly and indirectly.· In other ways the activities of the councils tend to conflict with regional policy and weaken its effects.· It is partly because of that false economics that the Conservatives have never had a regional policy.· Production was possibly undertaken in the older industrialized regions, especially if projects could claim regional policy or some similar incentive.· We will ensure that regional policy is well targeted.· In particular, they have very different assessments of the importance of: regional policy labour availability.
· David Savery is regional sales manager of the sales centre.· The regional sales people obviously have their reasons for doing what they did.· I started as a junior receptionist and now I am a regional sales manager with a very attractive salary and benefits.· The only other question I have is about the regional sales forecasts.· The make-up of the Glasgow head office committee is slightly different from the committees at Craigforth, branches and regional sales centres.· But I did get him to agree that I could get some input directly from the regional sales managers.
· It considered its gains in the 1967 war as vital to its regional security.· It can not be excluded from regional security arrangements if stability is to be achieved in oil flows from Gulf oil producers.· The erosion of regional security could be halted only at Kosovo s borders.· The Assembly also agreed on closer co-operation on the environment, on regional security and in the fight against drug trafficking.· It will damage the environment, ruin the lives of thousands of Kurdish people, and threaten regional security.
· Because regional variations tend to be more pronounced among working-class speakers, it is also a class variation.· But both groups include many profoundly different peoples, owing partly to the accidents of history and partly to regional variations.· It also highlights significant regional variations, possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools' approach to discipline.· As before, their distribution among institutions takes account of student numbers and regional variations in housing costs.· There are many regional variations of this delightful fish, and colouring will vary according to where the stock has been collected.· Equally, regional variations in speech may generate different spellings.· But great regional variations were apparent.· This provides the evidence for possible regional variation in the focus of particular newspapers.
WORD FAMILYnounregionregionalismadjectiveregionaladverbregionally
relating to a particular region or area: local and regional government regional variations in farming practice a slight regional accent—regionally adverb: goods sold locally and regionally