ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does administrative division mean? 

• ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION (noun)
  The noun ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION has 1 sense:

1. a district defined for administrative purposes

  Familiarity information: ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A district defined for administrative purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division

Hypernyms ("administrative division" is a kind of...):

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrative division"):

canton (a small administrative division of a country)

ward (a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections)

town; township (an administrative division of a county)

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))

municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)

shire (a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county)

school district (a district whose public schools are administered together)

reservation; reserve (a district that is reserved for particular purpose)

federal district (a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation)

department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))

county palatine (the territory of a count palatine)

county ((United States) the largest administrative district within a state)

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

city (an incorporated administrative district established by state charter)

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Instance hyponyms:

Lower Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta)

Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)

Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)

 Context examples 

A small administrative division of a country.

(Canton, NCI Thesaurus)

An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization.

(Branch, NCI Thesaurus)