territory(AREA)
one of the four areas into which Ireland has traditionally been divided:
Connaught is Ireland's westernmost province.
in the deep south of Ireland in the province of Munster
 the ProvinceUK(also the province)
Northern Ireland:
We are interested in the economic prosperity of both the Province and the Republic of Ireland.
 the provinces[ plural ]
the parts of a country that are not the capital city or near a large city: 外省，外地（指首都以外的地区）
He didn't want to teach at a university in the provinces.
He was born in the China's northwest Shanxi province in 1950.
The competition is not open to residents of Alaska, Hawaii and the province of Quebec.
The majority of people in the province are in favour of devolution.该省大部分人赞同权力下放。
an autonomous province
Octavian ruled Rome's western provinces.
An Ulster fry is a dish of fried food that is popular throughout the province of Ulster in Ireland.
Catholics who seek closer links between the province and the rest of Ireland
We're not very sophisticated here in the provinces.

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Towns & regions: parts of countries
at local/national levelphrase
bicoastal
blue zone
Breton
city state
easterner
green belt
interterritorial
metropolitan borough
metropolitan county
multi-county
non-county
northerner
northwest
sector
southerner
southwest
super-regional
territory
westerner

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Towns & regions: named regions of countries

provincenoun (SUBJECT)

 someone's provinceformal
a subject or activity of special interest, knowledge, or responsibility: （某人的兴趣或知识的）范围，领域;职责范围
the province ofMarketing is within the province of the sales department.市场营销属于销售部的职责范围。
Renaissance art is not really his province - he specializes in the modern period.文艺复兴时期的艺术并不是他的研究领域——他的专业是现代艺术。
I didn't feel it was my province to give legal advice.
With this kind of interdisciplinary approach, everything is your province.
This kind of spyware has largely been the province of internet fraudsters.

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Topics & areas of interest
affair
angle
backyard
bailiwick
centrism
con
convention
current issue
front
issue
kingdom
leitmotiv
score
specialism
subject
talk
talking point
thematically
themed
topically

province | American Dictionary

province
noun
us/ˈprɑv·ɪns/

provincenoun (REGION)

[ C ]
a division of a country that has its own government:
The province of Quebec has voted several times on independence from Canada.
[ C ]
The provinces are the parts of a country outside its capital or most important city.

provincenoun (SUBJECT)

[ U ]fml
a subject or activity of special interest, knowledge, or responsibility:
Architecture is within the province of the art department.

Examples of province

province
Several of our young men have already been taken into the colleges of the provinces of the north.
As the individual towns, their tribute requirements, or the imperial status of the provinces changed over time, the document could be modified accordingly.
The constitution lacked institutional devices to counteract centrifugal tendencies and moderate political conflicts in the provinces.
First, wholesale loans were arranged for various localities or provinces with the intermediation of prominent traditional elites.
The null hypothesis for the test is that the conditional logit estimates are not different with or without including the inland provinces.
By 1984 tax subsidies to these provinces were a large multiple of the amounts authorised by the enabling legislation.
The composition of functional interests represented in the general board is allowed to vary, the statute for which is to be determined by the provinces.
Several operated in various spheres, their careers providing numerous reminders of the interlocking dimensions of urban political life in the provinces.
Positive forms of encouragement of pribumi entrepreneurship in the centre and the provinces must be a core policy.
Data are often grouped by political subdivisions, such as provinces, to estimate prevalence or force of infection in different areas.
As a result, while the provinces developed and strengthened their own power basis, the center also adjusted its relations with the provinces.
Note that the provinces did not completely surrender taxing authority, only for taxes that overlapped with federal taxes.
Secondly, a number of films showed that while the provinces and the city remained linked, the differences were more sharply etched.
The poorer provinces, which were most in need of public-works programmes, were particularly unsuccessful at allocating and disbursing the funds.
In 1997, some provinces ceased to process new applicants during the clean-up process and others defaulted on payments.
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Collocations withprovince

province

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coastal provinces
Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.
eastern provinces
Officials from the eastern provinces were not alone in their opposition to the use of compulsion in the production of palm oil.
exclusive province
They also took part in sporting rituals mistakenly assumed to be the exclusiveprovince of men.
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