dec.

Adjective

decorated (comparative more decorated, superlative most decorated)

1. Having had decorations applied; adorned with attractive items.
2. Having received prizes, awards, laurels, etc.
   • a decorated footballer
3. (not comparable) In one of the styles of English Gothic architecture.

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   dec.

Noun

subdivision (countable and uncountable, plural subdivisions)

1. A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
   • Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines...1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls, Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...
2. (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
   • Work on one subdivision at a time.
3. (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
4. (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
   • They're putting in a new subdivision out past Black Ranch Road.
5. (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
   • ... By the 1970s, cattle rustling had fallen by the wayside, as tractors replaced carabaos and industrial estates and residential subdivisions supplanted rice fields as the mainstays of Cavite's suburban northern towns.1999, Vicente L. Rafael, Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 81

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