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Provincial

Definition: Provincial

Provincial

Adjective

1. Of or associated with a province; "provincial government".

2. Characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes".

Noun

1. A country person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "provincial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Provincial

DomainDefinition

Literature

Provincial Like or in the manner of those who live in the provinces.
Provincial of an Order. The superior of all the monastic houses of a province. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: List of Canadian provinces and territories

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

simple:List Of Canadian Provinces And Territories

Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. The major difference between a Canadian province and a Canadian territory is that a province is a creation of the Constitution Act, while a territory is created by federal law. Thus, the federal government has more direct control over the territories, while provincial governments have many more competences and rights.

Provinces have a great deal of power relative to the federal government, having a large measure of control over spending on social programs such as medicare, education, employment insurance, and the like. They receive "transfer payments" from the federal government to pay for these, as well as exacting their own taxes.

Provincial legislatures are unicameral, having no second chamber equivalent to the Canadian Senate. Originally several provinces did have such bodies, known as Legislative Councils, but these were subsequently abolished, Quebec being the last in 1968. They operate on a procedure similar to that of the Canadian House of Commons. In most offices, the provincial legislature is known as the Legislative Assembly, except in Newfoundland and Labrador where it is called the House of Assembly, and in Quebec where it is called the National Assembly. Members of the Legislative Assembly in Ontario are called Members of the Provincial Parliament or MPPs. The head of government of each province, called the premier, is the head of the party with the most seats. This is also the case in Yukon. The legislatures of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have no parties. The Queen's representative to each province is the Lieutenant-Governor; to each territory, the Commissioner. These terminologies are summarized in the following table: 

   
   

     Provincial and Territorial Terminology Compared with
Federal


  Canada
  Governor general
  Prime minister
  Parliament
  House of Commons
  Member of Parliament




  Ontario
  Lieutenant governor
  Premier
  Legislature
  Legislative Assembly
  Member of Provincial Parliament




  Quebec
  National Assembly
  Member of the National Assembly




  Newfoundland and Labrador
  House of Assembly
  Member of the House of Assembly




  Other Provinces
  Legislative Assembly
  Member of the Legislative Assembly




  Territories
  Commissioner
Provinces, their capitals, and the date that they joined Confederation: Territories, their capitals, and the date that they joined Confederation: Note: Canada did not acquire any new land to create Manitoba, Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Nunavut. All of these originally formed part of the Northwest Territories (q.v.).

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Political divisions of China

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Most of the provinces of China have boundaries which were established in the late Ming Dynasty. Major changes since then have been the reorganization of provinces in the Northeast after the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949 and the establishment of autonomous regions which are based on Soviet nationality theory.

The most recent administrative changes have included the elevation of Chongqing and Hainan to provincial level status and the organization of Hong Kong and Macau as special administrative regions. All of the newly created administrative levels of the People's Republic of China equal those of the provinces. In Taiwan, Taipei and Kaohsiung were elevated to the status of centrally administered municipalities after the retreat of the KMT-led government.

In mainland China, provinces theoretically are subservient to the PRC central government, but in practice provincial officials have a large amount of discretion with regard to economic policy. Unlike the United States, the power of the central government was (with the exception of the military) not exercised through a parallel set of institutions until the early-1990s.

The actual practical power of the provinces has created what some economists call federalism with Chinese characteristics.

Provinces also serve an important cultural role in China. People tend to be identified in terms of their native provinces, and each province has a stereotype that corresponds to their inhabitants.

Levels

The People's Republic of China is subdivided into provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities. Moreover, special administrative regions are governed by the central government. They were established in 1983.

The Republic of China has no autonomous regions, prefecture-level cities and sub-provincial cities. Province-governed cities are the equivalents of county-level cities. It has county-governed city (town-level). In addition, it translates towns and townships both as townships. See Political divisions of the Republic of China

Provinces

Mainland China has 22 provinces (省 pinyin sheng3):

For the capitals, please refer to the list of capitals of subnational entities.

Defunct Provinces

Disputed Province

Main article: Political status of Taiwan

Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has considered Taiwan to be its 23rd province. However, the Republic of China currently controls the island and province of Taiwan, and Kinmen and Lienchiang counties of Fujian province. The ROC also officially claims all of mainland China (including Tibet) and outer Mongolia. However, this claim was unofficially dropped by Lee Teng-hui in 1991, but not officially approved by the National Assembly.

Maps of China published in Taiwan will often show provincial boundaries as they were in 1949 which do not match the current administrative structure as decided by the Communist Party of China post-1949.

Autonomous Regions

Apart from provinces there are 5 autonomous regions (自治区 pinyin zi4 zhi4 qu1) being concentrations of some Chinese minorities:

Municipalities

4 municipalities (直辖市 pinyin zhi2 xia2 shi4, literal meaning: "directly administrated city (by the central government)") adminstered by the PRC:

2 municipalities administered by the ROC:

Special administrative regions

2 special administrative regions (SARs) (特别行政区 pinyin te4 bie2 xing2 zheng4 qu1):

See also

External Links

 Uniform template for articles of the provinces are upon discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese provinces.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Political divisions of China."

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Provinces of Indonesia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The number of provinces of Indonesia has tended to increase as new provinces have been split from existing territories. As of January 2003 there appear to be 28 provinces (propinsi-propinsi, singular - propinsi), 2 special regions* (daerah-daerah istimewa, singular - daerah istimewa), and 1 special capital city district** (daerah khusus ibukota)

External link

Map

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Provinces of Indonesia."

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Provinces of Sweden

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Provinces or Landskap were the subdivision of Sweden until 1634, when they were replaced by Counties in a reform, led by Axel Oxenstierna, that still remains in force in Sweden Proper. The county reform also survived until 1997 in Finland, despite the separation from Sweden in 1809. The provinces have no administrative function today but remains as an historical legacy and as source of cultural identification. Even if the provinces are defunct as entities their traditions are still maintained by present day authorities.

History

The origin of the division into provinces were the smaller separate kingdoms that eventually united and formed the unified Sweden. Even after being united under a Swedish monarch each of these lands had its own law and Thing, a combined political and judicial assembly. The constituent provinces were held as duchies, but as the kingdom expanded with newly conquered provinces depending on their importance they received a status of duchy or county.

Of the conquests made after separation from the Kalmar Union in 1523 only some were incorporated as provinces. Most significantly at the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, where the former Danish provinces of Scania, Blechingia, Hallandia and Bahusia, with the Norwegian provinces of Jemtia and Herdalia became Swedish and eventually fully integrated. Other than that conquered territories were ruled as separate Dominions under the Swedish monarch, which in some cases lasted for two or even three centuries. Norway was in personal union with Sweden for during the 19th century but never an integral part of Sweden.

The division of Västerbotten that took place when ceding Finland inavertly caused the new province of Norrbotten to emerge and eventually it came to be recognised as a province in its own right but it has never been granted a coat of arms.

Heraldry

At the funeral of King Gustav Vasa(Gustav I) in 1560 the coats of arms for the provinces were displayed togeather for the first time and several of them had been granted for that particular occasion. After the separation of Sweden and Finland the traditions for respective provincial arms diverged. Most noticeably in that all Swedish provinces carry dukal crowns, following an order by the Privy Council on January 18, 1884, while the Finnish provincial arms still distinguish between dukal and countal dignity. A complication is also that the representation of Finnish dukal and countal coronets resemble Swedish coronets of a lower order, namely countal and baronal. The division of Lappland necessitated a distinction between the Swedish and the Finnish arms.

Götaland

Götaland consists of the following ten provinces all within present day Sweden:

Svealand

Svealand consists of the following six provinces all within present day Sweden:

Norrland

Norrland consists of the following nine provinces, out of which Westrobothnia and Lapponia are divided between present day Sweden and present day Finland, and Ostrobothnia which is wholly located within present day Finland:

Österlanden

Österlanden consists of the following seven provinces all within present day Finland:

See also: Dominions of Sweden, Historical provinces of Finland, Counties of Sweden

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Provinces of Sweden."

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Taiwan Province

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

zh-cn:台湾省

Taiwan Province (台灣省) is an administrative subdivision of the Republic of China (ROC) that includes the most of the Taiwan Island and surrounding islets, and the Pescadores. Even though the province-level municipalities of Taipei City and Kaohsiung City are on the island of Taiwan, they are not administratively part of the Province. Taiwan Province also excludes Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties, which are adminstered as the ROC part of Fujian Province. The capital of Taiwan Province is Chung-hsing-hsin-ts'un.

The term is also used sometimes by persons in the People's Republic of China to refer to Taiwan and depending on the context (if referring to the entire ROC government as "provincial") can provoke a bad reaction by most people from Taiwan.

Political divisions

Taiwan Province has sixteen counties and five cities:

Counties
  • Chiayi
  • Changhua
  • Hsinchu
  • Hualien
  • Ilan
  • Kaohsiung
  • Miaoli
  • Nantou
  • Pescadores (Penghu)
  • Pingtung
  • Taichung
  • Tainan
  • Taipei
  • Taitung
  • Taoyuan
  • Yunlin
Municipalities
  • Chiayi
  • Hsinchu
  • Keelung (Chilung)
  • Taichung
  • Tainan

Note: The cities of Taipei and Kaohsiung are administered directly by the central government and are not part of Taiwan province.

See also: Political divisions of the Republic of China

History

Taiwan Province was established in 1885 by the Qing Empire. Previously, it had been administered as part of Fujian province. In 1895, it was transferred to Japan, and in 1945, the province ceded to the Republic of China. The first governor of Taiwan Province, Chen Yi, was extremely unpopular and under his administration, there was an uprising known as the 228 incident. Chen was removed in May of 1947 for disloyalty.

When the Kuomintang (KMT) central government fled to Taiwan in 1949, the provincial administration remained in place under the theory that the ROC was still the government of all of China even though it overlapped inefficiently with the national government. Until 1992, the governor of Taiwan province was appointed by the ROC central government, and this office was often a stepping stone to higher office.

In the early 1990s, the status of Taiwan Province was reopened. The then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) agreed to retain the province with an elected governor in the hopes of creating a Yeltsin effect in which a popular local leader could overwhelm the national government. These hopes proved unfulfilled as then-Kuomintang member James Soong was elected governor of Taiwan by a wide margin defeating the DPP candidate Chen Ding-Nan.

In 1997, as the result of an agreement between the KMT and the DPP, the administration of the province was streamlined in curtailed constitutional changes. For example, the post of provincial governor and the provincial assembly were both abolished and replaced with a nine-member special council. Although the stated purpose was administrative efficiency, many believe that it was actually intended to destroy James Soong's power base and eliminate him from political life. In addition, the provincial legislature was abolished while the Legislative Yuan was expanded to include some of the former provincial legislators. In contrast to the past where the head of Taiwan province was considered a major official, the chairperson of Taiwan province after 1999 has been considered a very minor position.

List of heads of province

Chief executive (行政長官 xingzheng zhangguan):

  1. Chen Yi (Oct 25, 1945-May 1947)

Temporarily part of the Executive Yuan, the position was legalized in Taiwan Province Administrative Official Public Ministry Organization Statute (「臺灣省行政長官公署組織條例」) of September 20, 1945.

Chairpersons (省主席 shengzhuxi):

  1. Wey Daw-ming (May 16, 1947 - Jan 5, 1949)
  2. Chen Tsyr-shiou (Jan 5, 1949 - Dec 21, 1949)
  3. Wu Gwo-jen (Dec 21, 1949 - Apr 16, 1953)
  4. Yu Horng-jiun (Apr 16, 1953 - Jun 7, 1954)
  5. Yen Chia-kan (Jun 7, 1954 - Aug 16, 1957)
  6. Chow Chih-jou (Aug 16, 1957 - Dec 1, 1962)
  7. Huang Chieh (Dec 1, 1962 - Jul 5, 1969)
  8. Shien Ta-ching (Jul 5, 1969 - Jun 6, 1972)
  9. Shien Tung-min (Jun 6, 1972 - May 20, 1978)
  10. Lin Yang-kang (Jun 12, 1978 - Dec 5, 1981)
  11. Lee Teng-hui (Dec 5, 1981 - May 20, 1984)
  12. Chiu Chuang-huan (Jun 9, 1984 - Jun 16, 1990)
  13. Lien Chan (Jun 16, 1990 - Dec 21,1998)
  14. James Soong (Mar 20, 1993 - Dec 20, 1994):
    James Soong (Dec 20, 1994 - Dec 21, 1998, as a governor, 省長 shengzhang). The title "governor" was first legally used in the Self-Governance Law for Provinces and Counties (省縣自治法) of July 29, 1994
  15. Chao Shou-po (Dec 21, 1998 - May 20, 2000)
  16. Chang Po-ya (May 20, 2000 - Feb 1, 2002)
  17. Fan Kuang-chun (Feb 1, 2002 - Oct 14, 2003)
  18. Lin Kuang-hua (Oct 14, 2003 - present)

See also: Politics of Taiwan

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Synonyms: Provincial

Synonyms: bucolic (n), peasant (n). (additional references)
Antonym: cosmopolitan (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Provincial

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Adjective: urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.

Region

Adjective: territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Provincial

English words defined with "provincial": Aquila, Aquila degli Abruzzi ♦ bumpkinly ♦ Catholic, Charlottetown, cosmopolitan ♦ Darwin, Deprovincialize ♦ Eliot ♦ Firenze, Florence, Fredericton ♦ Genoa, Genova, George Eliot, global ♦ Halifax, hick ♦ Langue d'oc, Langue d'oc French, Langue d'oil, Langue d'oil French, L'Aquila ♦ Mary Ann Evans ♦ Patavinity, planetary, proconsul, Provincialist, Provinciality, Provincialize ♦ redbrick university, Regina, rustic ♦ Saint John's, St. John's, Synodal ♦ Toronto ♦ Un-, unsophisticated ♦ Venezia, Venice ♦ Whinstone, Whitehorse, world, worldwide. (references)
Specialty definitions using "provincial": balkstone ♦ Clarenceux King-of-Arms ♦ de facto boundary ♦ Keweenawan ♦ North American Securities Administrators Association ♦ One-horse Universities, Outreach activity ♦ Pahrump, Pet Words ♦ Royal Titles. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Provincial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (parochial, provincial, small town), French (provincial), Portuguese (provincial), Romanian (backwoodsman, countrified, country, parochial, provincial, rustic), Spanish (provincial).

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Modern Usage: Provincial

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings but you're not a woman (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Movie/TV Titles

Exploring Ontario's Provincial Parks (1993)

Le Provincial (1990)

Local and Provincial Governments: Working Together (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Provincial

DomainTitle

References

  • Banco Provincial, S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Grupo Nacional Provincial: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Sun Life and Provincial Holdings Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (reference)

  • Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: A Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630-1850 (reference)

  • Diary of a Provincial Lady (reference)

  • French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference)

  • Giftwraps by Artists: French Provincial 18Th-Century Textile Paintings (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Manufacturing Industries Of Canada : National And Provincial Areas (reference)

  • Provincial Economic Service (reference)

  • Provincial Outlook (reference)

  • Provincial Taxes Electronic Reference Library - Cd-rom (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Amerock 714-ABS Provincial Pull (reference)

  • Amerock BP3410-BW 1-1/2" x 7/8" Bright Brass Provincial Knob (reference)

  • Angelo Brothers 6919400 Provincial Suite Flush Mount Ceiling Fixture (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Provincial

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Photo Album: Provincial

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Dr. Moore meets with Provincial Governor to explain the malaria control program ... Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Peter Henderson Bryce : Secretary Provincial Board of Health. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Iglesia provincial, Chiquimula, Guatemala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Interior with painting of nude woman and cupid, over fireplace, French provincial furniture, and heavily draped windows at left, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Edward Titus (Mme Helena Rubenstein), residence at 895 Park Ave., New York City. French Provincial room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Emprunt Français 5 percent 1920 - Lloyds and National Provincial Foreign Bank Limited. Credit: Library of Congress.

Souscrivez a l'Emprunt de la Liboeration! Lloyds Bank (France) and National Provincial Bank (France) Limited. Credit: Library of Congress.

Governor and escort passing through provincial village in covered sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Emprunt Français 5 percent 1920 - Lloyds and National Provincial Foreign Bank Limited. Credit: Library of Congress.

Souscrivez a l'Emprunt de la Liboeration! Lloyds Bank (France) and National Provincial Bank (France) Limited. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Provincial
 

"White Pine, Northern Ontario" by Valerie Walker
Commentary: "Killbear Provincial Park, Ontario 2003."		"Fall Reflection" by Peter E. Leonard
Commentary: "Fall Reflection. Mount Bruno Provincial Park, Quebec, Canada. ©2003 Peter E. Leonard."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Provincial

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The provincial dandy wore longer spurs and fiercer moustaches

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Mr Dedalus imitated the mincing nasal tone of the provincial.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Provincial

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Some provincial governments announced similar plans. (references)

Licenses are issued by provincial government offices. (references)

The following is a list of provincial sales tax rates. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Education is a provincial responsibility. (references)

Canada

Les Enfants de Duplessis, a private group of 250 of the 1,000 to 1,500 citizens who as orphan children were diagnosed falsely as retarded and psychotic, and illegally interned in mental institutions between the 1930's and 1950's, continued to seek compensation from the provincial and federal governments. (references)

Mozambique

Social workers have found that some parents of children with disabilities did not permit their children to leave their homes; provincial women and social action officials continued their educational campaign to reverse traditional attitudes toward children with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

In July and August 2000, the Government continued to harass Soares, and the provincial government seized his motorcycle, which was his only means of transport. (references)

Mozambique

The Bobole refugee camp, near Marracuene, was scheduled to be closed in 2002. In June the Government opened a new refugee center near the northern provincial capital of Nampula and planned to transfer refugees residing in Bobole to the new center by year's end; however, by mid-year the new camp already was filled to capacity, which resulted in a delay in transferring refugees from Bobole. (references)

Canada

The plan is scheduled to be phased in over the next 5 years, beginning in 2002. In 1999 the government-mandated Proulx task force submitted a report on religion in schools to the Quebec provincial assembly. (references)

Discrimination

Syria

Certain prominent positions, such as that of provincial governor, are reserved solely for Ba'th Party members. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Therefore, most foreign investors partner with SOE's, a term which includes firms controlled both by central government ministries and by municipal and provincial authorities. (references)

Vietnam

Additional services relating to customs declaration, appraisal, insurance, reprocessing or packaging require the approval of the provincial customs office. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

The other 326 types of crimes (generally more serious) are adjudicated at the provincial level. (references)

Argentina

By the end of the year, five provincial police were being held on charges linked to the boys' cases. (references)

Afghanistan

With no functioning nationwide judicial system, many municipal and provincial authorities relied on some interpretation of Islamic law and traditional tribal codes of justice. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

The laws provisions include: acknowledgement of the Government's shortcomings in governing Papua; acknowledgement of the special cultural identity of Papuans and recognition of indigenous rights; establishment of a Human Rights Commission to clarify the history of Papua; redirection a large percentage of local revenues from the central government to the province; and a stipulation that the provincial government has authority in all fields, except foreign policy, defense, monetary and fiscal policy, religion, and justice. (references)

Argentina

Nonetheless, some communities were involved in land disputes with provincial governments and private companies, particularly over questions of natural resource extraction and road construction. (references)

Malaysia

However, in a landmark judgement in May, the High Court in the provincial capital of Kuching, Sarawak, ruled that native customary rights of the indigenous people of Sarawak do not exist because of statute; rather, they are historically recognized rights which existed long before independence. (references)

Minorities

Cambodia

Also in March, a provincial judge ruled against ethnic hill tribe villagers in a land dispute. (references)

Niger

In 2000 several hundred Muslims rioted in the provincial capital of Maradi, burned a Protestant church and a nearby seminary facility belonging to the Abundant Life Church, and looted houses and an office at a compound of a foreign missionary organization. (references)

Canada

The chaplain's initial complaints filed with the provincial and federal human rights commissions were dismissed because the law gives judges immunity from human rights laws. (references)

Political Economy

Pakistan

In consultation with senior military commanders, General Musharraf designated himself Chief Executive, and suspended the Constitution, the Parliament, and the national and provincial assemblies. (references)

Pakistan

The Government conducted a series of trainings for police officers in provincial capitals; in these trainings, human rights abuses committed by law enforcement officials were acknowledged openly. (references)

Pakistan

Citizens continued to be denied the right to change their national and provincial governments peacefully but participated in local government elections during the year that provided increased power to district mayors and councils. (references)

Political Rights

Cameroon

The President also has the power to appoint important lower level members of the 58 provincial administrative structures, including the senior divisional officers, the divisional officers, and the district chiefs. (references)

Greece

Elected nomarchs govern at the provincial level. (references)

Cameroon

These elections were for mayors or deputy mayors and council members in Douala, Yaounde, provincial capitals, and some division capitals. (references)

Trade

Laos

INSTEAD, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE AN ANNUAL IMPORT PLAN TO THE PROVINCIAL OR MUNICIPAL INDUSTRY AND HANDICRAFT DEPARTMENT WHERE THE FACTORY IS LOCATED. (references)

China

However, existing laws are ineffective due to poor national coordination and inconsistent local and provincial enforcement. (references)

China

Many of the 240 or so international trust and investment corporations (ITICs) established by government agencies and provincial authorities, however, experienced severe liquidity problems after the bankruptcy of the Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corporation (GITIC) in late 1998. The largest surviving ITIC is China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), which has a banking subsidiary known as CITIC Industrial Bank. (references)

Travel

Spain

Since 1998, provincial codes, two or three digit codes beginning with 9, are obligatory even within regions. (references)

Italy

The Italian employer files an application at a Provincial Labor Office. (references)

Chile

Business and tourist visitors are granted stays of 90 days, which can be extended for additional 90 days by the Registro de Servicios e Identificaciones, Of. de Extranjeria (Teatinos 950, Santiago, Chile), or the Gobernacion Provincial outside of the capital. (references)

Women

Papua New Guinea

There is an Office of Women's Affairs in the Office of Church and Family Services of the Ministry of Provincial Affairs. (references)

China

In recognition of the seriousness of spousal abuse, 13 provinces and provincial level cities have passed legislation to address the problem. (references)

Worker Rights

Papua New Guinea

The Public Employees Association represents an estimated 23,000 persons employed by national, provincial, and municipal governments, or one-third of the public sector work force. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Provincial

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801But perhaps it will be said, that we are to enjoy the British constitution in our supreme legislature, the parliament, not in our provincial legislatures.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Provincial

"Provincial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Provincial" is used about 1,625 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1,6255,117

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Provincial

CountryNameCountryName
Mexico

Grupo Nacional Provincial

United Kingdom

Sun Life and Provincial Holdings Plc

Venezuela

Banco Provincial, S.A.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Provincial

Expressions using "provincial": provincial accent ♦ provincial capital ♦ provincial roads. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "provincial": provincial-chronicle, provincial-theatre.

Ending with "provincial": inter-provincial.

Containing "provincial": French-provincial-style.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Provincial

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ontario provincial park

1,108

b.c exam provincial

62

exam provincial

957

killbear park provincial

56

bc exam provincial

628

government ontario provincial

55

provincial park

499

french provincial

54

ontario provincial police

292

lake superior provincial park

53

park provincial sandbanks

175

bon echo park provincial

49

banco provincial

164

12 exam grade provincial

49

park pinery provincial

139

provincial sales tax

49

bc park provincial

139

killarney provincial park

47

manitoba provincial park

122

quebec provincial park

46

alberta provincial park

120

provincial campground

46

saskatchewan provincial park

114

canada provincial park

46

provincial

112

hotel killbear park point provincial

43

algonquin provincial park

97

bc campground provincial

40

provincial airline

95

camping ontario park provincial

40

british columbia provincial exam

77

alberta museum provincial

40

french provincial furniture

76

park provincial whiteshell

38

government provincial

69

balsam lake park provincial

38

dinosaur provincial park

68

arrowhead park provincial

38

british columbia provincial park

64

bank park provincial sand

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Provincial

Language Translations for "provincial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

provincial (parochial, small town), njeri i ngushtë, lokal (cafeteria, coffee room, house, local, native, parlor, parlour, premises, restaurant, room, sectional, spot, vicinal), krahinor (local, regional), i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, small, small minded, Strait, tight), banor i krahinës. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قروي (country, pastoral, rural, village), ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏ضيق أفق التفكير, ‏القروي (peasant, villager), ‏الريفي (peasant, swain, yokel), ‏إلإقليمي, ‏إقليمي (regional, sectional, territorial), ‏أسقف الأبرشية, ‏ريفي (boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, countrified, countryman, pastoral, rural, rustic), ‏شخص محلي التفكير, ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

местен (aboriginal, home grown, indigenous, local, locative, native, native born, regional, resident, sectional, topical, vernacular, vicinal, vulgar), архиепископ (archbishop, metropolitan, primate), провинциален (countrified, country, doric, rural, rustic), провинциалист (country cousin, provincialist, ruralist). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

省 (Province). (various references)

   

Czech

  

provinciální, venkovský (country, rural, rustic), venkovan (country man, countryman, hillbilly, peasant, villager). (various references)

   

Danish

  

amtsvej (by-road, by-way, country road, prefectural road, provincial road, subsidiary road), amtskommunal landevej (country road, prefectural road, provincial road), amtskommunal indkomstskat (county income tax, provincial income tax). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

provinciaal. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

provinca. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کوته فکر (Dogmatic, Lowminded, Narrow, Prude), ایالتی (Statehood), ایالت نشین , استانی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maaseutulainen (from the country), maalainen (country, peasant, rustic), maakunnallinen. (various references)

   

French

  

provincial. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

provinsjaal. (various references)

   

German

  

provinziell. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επαρχιώτικοσ, επαρχιώτησ, επαρχιακόσ, επαρχιακός. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחוזי (district, regional), קרתני (boorish, parochial, rustic), פרובינציאלי, צר אפק (hidebound, insular, narrow minded, sectarian, small minded, stuffy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vidéki (country cousin, down-home, hick, landward, out of town, rural). (various references)

   

Italian

  

provinciale (parochial, small town). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

井の中の蛙大海を知らず (parochial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず (parochial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

지방 (Fatty, Province). (various references)

   

Manx

  

queiggagh, mooar-rheynnagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ovincialpray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

provinciano (countryman, insular, one-track, parochial), provincial, superior de província. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

provincial (backwoodsman, countrified, country, parochial, rustic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

архиепископ (archbishop, primate), провинциальный (doric, smalltown), провинциал провинциальный (hick). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

provincijalan, provincijalac, palančanin, palanački. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

provinciano. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

småstadsbo, provinsiell (jerkwater, parochial). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taşralı kimse (country cousin), taşralı (backwoodsman, countryman, Hick, rustic, upcountry), taşra (back country, backwoods, boondocks, bush league, country, freshwater, jerkwater, jerkwater town, outback, the provinces, upcountry, upstate), köylü (corydon, countrified, country folk, countryman, grass roots, hayseed, Hick, Kern, kerne, peasant, ploughman, plowman, rube, rustic, villager, yokel), il (county, province), geri kafalı (behindhand, bigoted, hidebound, narrow minded, square-toed), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, uncouth, underbred, unmannerly), dini idarenin yöneticisi, dar görüşlü (hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, narrow minded, parochial, purblind, small minded, strait laced, untravelled). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate), місцевий (aboriginal, domestic, home, home-bred, indigenous, local, locative, native, on site, on the spot, parochial, territorial, topical), провінційний (backwoods, country, doric), провінціал (back-countryman, provincialist), периферійний (peripheral). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người tỉnh lẻ (provincialist). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

taleithiol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Provincial

Derivations

Words beginning with "provincial": provincialism, provincialisms, provincialist, provincialists, provincialities, provinciality, provincialization, provincializations, provincialize, provincialized, provincializes, provincializing, provincially, provincials. (additional references)

Words ending with "provincial": interprovincial. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Provincial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pratincola, privincial, provincal, provincia, Provincien, provinciis, provinical, provinicial. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Provincial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "provincial" (pronounced pruvi"nshul)
9p r u v i" n sh u linterprovincial.
4-n sh u lconfidential, essential, experiential, financial, jurisprudential, nonfinancial, nonresidential, potential, quintessential.
3-sh u linertial, antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, spatial, special, superficial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, uncontroversial, unofficial.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Provincial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-v"

-2 letters: ironical, parvolin, pavilion.

-3 letters: avionic, cipolin, clarion, corvina, picolin, porcini, ravioli, vicinal.

-4 letters: alnico, caplin, carlin, caroli, clivia, inclip, ironic, lorica, oilcan, pavior, pianic, picaro, pionic, prolan, rapini, violin, virion.

-5 letters: acini, acorn, aioli, aloin, anvil, apron, avion, cairn, capon, carol, carpi, cavil, cilia, civil, claro, clavi, colin, copal, copra, coral, coria, covin, iliac.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-v"
 

+1 letter: provincials.

 

+2 letters: provincially.

 

+3 letters: provincialism, provincialist, provinciality, provincialize.

 

+4 letters: provincialisms, provincialists, provincialized, provincializes.

 

+5 letters: interprovincial, overapplication, provincialities, provincializing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency 		13. Names: Company Usage
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern 		17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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