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subdivision(dictionary)
Subdivision(law)

subdivision (iou)



subdivision noun. LME.
[Late Latin subdivisio(n-), formed as SUB- + DIVISION noun.]
Each of the parts into which a division is or may be divided; a secondary or subordinate division. LME.
W. S. Churchill The hundreds, subdivisions of the shire, were created.
b. Military. Half of a division, company, etc. E17.
c. An area of land subdivided into plots for the erection of houses; a housing estate. N. Amer. & Austral. M19.
New Yorker I longed for the suburbstheir open-skied subdivisions.
The action or process of subdividing; the fact of being subdivided; an instance of this. (Foll. by of.) LME.
subdi'visional adjective of or pertaining to (a) subdivision; of the nature of subdivision; consisting of a subdivision: M17.
subdi'visive adjective (rare) resulting from subdivision M19.