regional

1. not comparableOf, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

   regional playoffs

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   Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional

   Synonyms: diatopic, intraregional, locoregional

2. not comparableOf, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.

   regional rainfall patterns

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   regional language variation

3. not comparableOf, or pertaining to, one part of the body.

   regional symptoms

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   Near-synonym: locoregional

   regional nerve block

   Synonyms: locoregional · Antonyms: systemic, bodywide

4. Australianot comparableOf a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts that are not metropolitan but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.

   The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.

   2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 03-1

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   The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.

   1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, volume Issue 71, page 94

   HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.

   2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer′s Australia 2011, unnumbered page

plural regionals

1. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.

   In the CPE^([Customer Premises Equipment]) market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.

   1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld, page 125

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   Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.

   2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44

   Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […]

   2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook, page 12