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division

(Act of dividing), noun allocation, allotment, apportionment, breaking, breakup, cleavage, cut, cutting, departmentalization, detachment, disaccord, disassociation, disbandment, disconnection, discord, disengagement, disharmony, disjunction, disjuncture, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, disseverance, dissipation, dissociation, dissonance, distribution, disunion, disuniting, disunity, divisio, divorce, faction, noncooperation, opposition, parcelling, parting, partitio, partition, portioning, rationing, schism, scission, section, segmentation, segregation, sejunction, separation, severance, sharing, split, splitting, spread, sunderance, tearing, uncoupling, untying
Associated concepts: division of costs, division of damages, division of governmental powers, division of property, eqqitable division, final division and distribution, political subbivision

division

(Administrative unit), noun area, branch, cadre, canton, category, chapter, class, classification, district, group, grouping, province, region, ward, zone

DIVISION, Eng. law. A particular and ascertained part of a county. In Lincolnshire, division means what riding does in Yorkshire.

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Nation building in Pakistan, as it has proved through various divisionary programs, was never in its designs.

GEO TV's tirade against national security institutions

In order to regulate environmental affairs in a decentralized government, sub divisionary offices of the Environment Protection Agency are to be set up in the North Central Province and the South Province this year.

Nasheed calls for united Parliament in 2011

This is a divisionary step that splits the Lebanese and classifies them by imposing barriers and later walls to separate them in a bid to achieve what years of civil war failed to accomplish," the Lebanon First bloc MP said.

Politicians criticize draft law to block inter-religious land sales

Equally, the Council is undertaking divisionary work with young people in the area by way of the creation of a Youth Shelter.

Violent crime falls in city

The State Cabinet's decision is likely to have far reaching repercussions for other states in India, and could trigger similar divisionary and disturbing decisions.

JD (U) criticises Maharashtra Government's taxi permit rules

What is at stake in Edelman's analysis is a structure of consensus, which is entirely concomitant with the police order and not at all concomitant with the divisionary disagreements necessitated by the politics of the demos.

How queer is the demos? Politics, sex, and equality

But the label 'clear red water' which they embrace and through which their 'progressive alternative' has been articulated is, at its core, based upon a divisionary, nation-centred logic.