Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A part or division of a district.
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- noun A
district forming part of a larger district.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The valley's first groundwater subdistrict, which is currently under review by the Division 3
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General Abdul Raziq, embraced by ISAF for routing the Taliban out of the difficult Malajat and Arghandab, a subdistrict and district of Kandahar, and now its police chief, and Mattulah Khan, a self
Vanda Felbab-Brown: Implications of the Assassinations of Prominent Politicians in Afghanistan Vanda Felbab-Brown 2011
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Formerly, district and subdistrict administrators for the Durrani government would disburse between four and five rupees as annual cash stipends directly to certain local chiefs.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Mullen says that he was "encouraged by movement in subdistrict governance," but that "there is still a long way to go."
The Second Afghan Front Matthew Kaminski 2010
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Mr. Zahir, a subdistrict governor, is the first Afghan official to serve in the town in more than two years.
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The three women, aged 70, 50 and about 25, were killed at Maubaralisa subdistrict Maubara, district Liquica, about 40km west of the capital Dili.
East Timorese Belief In Witchcraft Christopher 2009
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For the census, Ms. Feng is in charge of obtaining and checking detailed financial statements from every commercial operation in her corner of northwestern Beijing, a subdistrict of about 200,000 people.
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A similar program was organized in the ghetto of Shargorod, a city/subdistrict in the Mogilev district where numerous Jews were deported from Bukovina and Dorohoi (for some, Shargorod was merely a transit point in their deportation eastward).
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The three women, aged 70, 50 and about 25, were killed at Maubaralisa subdistrict Maubara, district Liquica, about 40km west of the capital Dili.
Archive 2009-07-01 Christopher 2009
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In women's recollections of their youth (circa 1910-40), the horizons of shared place were at the same time fairly limited and infinitely elastic, defined principally by the ganga (subdistrict) or tiko (in this context, chieftaincy) where they resided but also by the landscape they or their peers traversed through visiting and trade and had "seen with [their] eyes."
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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