riding

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She knows the riding has been historically represented by Liberal, there was one PC win, but she hopes the voters will see that no huge successes have been won for Labrador under the Liberals.

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  1. noun The act of riding.
  2. noun Horseback riding.
  3. noun An administrative division or electoral division in Canada.
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  • Morel believes the number one issue facing the constituents of the riding is the economy. —  Kootenay Rockies - News
  • They say the Newmarket-Aurora riding is at risk because incumbent Belinda Stronach is not running in the next election and the Liberal Party's polling numbers are down nationally. —  Darryl Wolk Blog
  • The West edge of the riding is actually a tall ridge above the banks of the Bow, and arguably has the best views in all of Calgary - both mountain AND the downtown of the city - along with some river. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • The top issues in the riding are agriculture, health care and greening the economy, he said. —  Tyee - Home
  • "What we need in this riding is a strong four-way race based on the issues," he said. —  Tyee - Home
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  1. Middle English, alteration of trithing, from Old English *thrithing, from Old Norse thridhjungr, third part, from thridhi, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ridinge, rydynge; verbal noun of ride, v.
  2. Prop. *thriding, the loss of th being prob, due to the wrong division of the compounds North-thriding (corrupted to Northriding), South-thriding, East-thriding, West-thriding; from Icelandic thrithjungr (= Norwegian tridjung), the third part of a thing, third part of a shire, from thrithi (= Norwegian tridje) = English third: see third.
 

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