inter-regional

A form of interregional — Of, pertaining to, or connecting two or more regions.

Meanings

adjectiveinter-regional (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of interregional.

    Rather similar simple forms can be found over the whole area, and there are also specific inter-regional types, such as the widely distributed rod-headed figurines.

    1996, A. W. R. Whittle, Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 64
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    During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.

    1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224

Origin

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