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Meaning of region in English

region
noun [ C ]
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/ˈriː.dʒən/ us
/ˈriː.dʒən/
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a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country is divided:
one of China's autonomous regions
the Nordic/Asia-Pacific region
the Basque region
an area of a country, especially one that has a particular characteristic or is known for something:
a wine/farming region
mountainous/coastal regions
There's a shortage of cheap housing in the region.
a particular part of someone's body:
He said he had sharp pains in the stomach region/the region of the stomach.
in the region of
C1
approximately:
They estimate that the temperature yesterday was (somewhere) in the region of -30°C.
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region | American Dictionary

region
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈri·dʒən/
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a particular area or part of a state, country, or the earth’s surface:
Wheat is the major crop of this region.
A region is also a particular area or part of the body:
He’s complaining of pain in the lower abdominal region.

regional

adjective [ not gradable ] us
/ˈri·dʒə·nəl/
a regional trade and rail center

regionally

adverb us/ˈri·dʒə·nəl·i/

Idiom

(somewhere) in the region of
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region | Business English

region
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈriːdʒən/ us
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a particular area or part of the world, or one of the areas into which a country is divided:
the less-developed regions of the world
Coastal regions of the country have much better infrastructure and many more Internet users than others.
The retailer plans to open eight stores in the Baltimore region in the next two months.
in the region of
used to show that a number is only approximate:
cost/earn/pay in the region of sth A comparable system would cost somewhere in the region of 300,000 euros.
They made us an offer in the region of $25,000.
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In addition, the user can combine time regions to form a time tree that can be used for multi-resolution browsing and annotation.
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The pictures show various unfoldings with the forbidden area and the unsafe regions below.
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Developing regions with smaller preferential quotas stand to gain more from market liberalisation.
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Quality of the bid document appeared in eight of the ten regions, though not the same quality variables.
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The solution of the problem thus hinges on locating the free boundary separating regions where the two different regimes prevail.
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Such information will better inform policymakers concerned with land tenure, resource management, and conflicts in these regions.
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The seriously polluted advanced regions are coastal, and the lightly polluted under-developed regions are all landlocked.
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Much archaeological research deals with periods and regions for which it is a real struggle to discern the agency of individuals.
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Externally, however, the aspect takes on a nature of the impervious and the building returns to its region's prevailing mood.
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Recovering the underlying function f inside its different regions of smoothness.
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The ability to leave regions of attraction to local minimizers is, however, drastically enhanced by crossing over.
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The sampled vases include examples from all stylistic groups and most geographic regions.
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Overall, external trade, although important for certain areas, accounted for only a small part of the social product of these regions.
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In this way the frontiers of the feasible regions of the mechanism space were misrepresented.
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The heaviest usage was in the northern and western regions of the subcontinent with much lower levels in the extreme south.
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Collocations with region

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active region
If the virtual source is located outside of the active region, at least one of the gains is negative.
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administrative region
Between 58 and 95% of the children had both parent- and teacher-ratings, depending on the administrative region.
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affected region
However, cats never hesitated to approach the fixation target when the peripheral target was in the affected region of the hemifield.
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Translations of region

in Chinese (Traditional)
區域，地區, （國家的）行政區, （一個國家內）有…特色，以…知名的地區…
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区域，地区, （国家的）行政区, （一个国家内）有…特色，以…知名的地区…
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región, zona, región [feminine…
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região, região [feminine]…
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प्रदेश…
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地域, 地方, 地域（ちいき）…
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bölge, yöre, (vücut) bölge…
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région [feminine], région…
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streek…
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ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட பகுதி அல்லது உலகின் ஒரு பகுதி, அல்லது ஒரு நாடு பிரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள பெரிய உத்தியோகபூர்வ பகுதிகளில் ஏதேனும், ஒரு நாட்டின் ஒரு பகுதி…
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एक विशेष क्षेत्र या हिस्सा, किसी देश का एक क्षेत्र, इलाका…
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region…
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region, område, trakt…
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rantau, wilayah…
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die Region…
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region [masculine], område [neuter], distrikt [neuter]…
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علاقہ, خطہ, خطۂ زمین…
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країна, край…
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регион, область, район…
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ఒక నిర్దిష్ట ప్రాంతం లేదా ప్రపంచంలోని భాగం, లేదా దేశంలో విభజించబడిన పెద్ద అధికారిక ప్రాంతాలలో ఏదైనా, ఒక దేశంలోని ప్రాంతం…
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مَنْطِقة, إقْليم…
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অঞ্চল…
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kraj, oblast…
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kawasan…
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ภูมิภาค…
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vùng…
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rejon, okolica, region…
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regione, zona, region…
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