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单词 provincial
释义
provincial
(prəvɪəl )
Word forms: provincials
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Provincial means connected with the parts of a country away from the capital city.
Jeremy Styles, 34, was the house manager for a provincial theatre for ten years.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Provincial means relating to a large section of a country which has its own administration.
...in Rasht, the provincial capital of Gilan province.
3. adjective
If you describe someone or something as provincial, you disapprove of them because you think that they are old-fashioned and boring. [disapproval]
He decided to revamp the company's provincial image.
The audience was dull and very provincial.
Synonyms: parochial, insular, narrow-minded, unsophisticated  
4. countable noun
A provincial is someone who comes from a part of a country away from the capital city.
Owen died an unknown provincial.
Synonyms: yokel, hick [informal, mainly US, Canadian], rustic, country cousin  
Collocations:
provincial chief
Dim was promoted to be a provincial chief at the age of 25, overseeing 300 villages.
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It has already thrown out claims by six other provincial chiefs.
ST
Fang participated in extemporary interpretation and simultaneous interpretation in various fields and interpreted for state leaders, provincial chiefs and foreign state guests.
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provincial department
Decision-making has been centralised away from the hospital to the provincial department.
ST
According to the provincial department of health, initiates admitted to hospitals were treated for septicaemia, gangrene and pneumonia.
ST
All medical colleges and universities are regulated by the respective provincial department of health.
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Under this new guise from 1887 to 1892 the school placed first in the provincial department examinations.
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Does your intervention signal a sterner approach to underperforming provincial departments?
ST
provincial hospital
It didn't make me better so my brother came over and took me to a provincial hospital on the back of his motorbike.
Times, Sunday Times
Medical officials confirmed that nine soldiers are being treated at the provincial hospital.
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It hosts the palliative care unit of the provincial hospital today, which in 1972 was put up in form of a concrete block, contiguous to the old one.
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provincial level
The authorities have had to concede a more open electoral system and more voting at the provincial level.
Times, Sunday Times
In the year before the 17th congress, the party will reshuffle some 170,000 officials from the provincial level right down to townships.
Times, Sunday Times
We need a level of high quality below provincial level.
Times, Sunday Times
Linking them at the provincial level has proven difficult, if not impossible.
Globe and Mail
He won regional tournaments, but lost at provincial level.
The Star (South Africa)
provincial representative
Competition held to determine the qualifying event for the provincial representative to the regional level.
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These volunteer experiences built a foundation for his future role of provincial representative.
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It will be composed of federal and provincial representatives.
Globe and Mail
The central government now consults with provincial representatives before making sensitive personnel appointments.
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provincial secretary
He served as speaker for the provincial assembly from 1875 to 1878, when he was named provincial secretary.
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Within 48 hours, the party's provincial secretary rescinded the nomination without explanation.
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She has been a provincial secretary, cantonal president, and party congressional participant.
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As well, the provincial secretary usually has a senior role in administering the party's electoral campaigns.
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In 1875, he was named provincial secretary and commissioner of agriculture and, in 1877, became provincial treasurer as well as commissioner of agriculture.
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provincial team
Finishing on my training track with my provincial team supporting me was very special.
ST
He learned to play table tennis at the age of five and became a member of the provincial team in 1990.
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She began weightlifting in 1989, and joined the provincial team in 1991, and the national team in 1992.
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Two years later, he joined the provincial team.
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She started weight-training at age 12, and joined the provincial team.
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provincial town
It had barely spread out from the constraints of its medieval limits and felt very much like a provincial town.
Times, Sunday Times
She moves from a small provincial town to a big city hoping to slot into the modern life she has seen in films and magazines.
The Sun
Growing up in a small provincial town, crafts were what made the days go by.
Times, Sunday Times
Why would a fledgeling band choose such an expensive provincial town?
Times, Sunday Times
It's a series that sets out to examine the rise of the provincial town shops, from their arbitrary birth halfway through the 19th century up to the 1970s.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 省的
Japanese: 地方の
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