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hyperdivision

hyperdivision noun: extreme or excessive division.

Noun

hyperdivision (uncountable)

  1. Extreme or excessive division.
    • In Nazi Germany, the hyperdivision of labour according to gender (political and military roles for men, domestic roles for women), had it lasted for centuries, would have possibly resulted in a model not unlike the Nayar.1994, Norbert Rouland, Legal Anthropology, page 209
    • In Japan, for example, tenure-in-place in a sharply segmented labor market with little mobility between primary sector firms created strong enough incentives that firms avoided the hyperdivision of labor and atrophy-inducing rules that once characterized many Western firms.2009, Paul DiMaggio, The Twenty-First-Century Firm, page 218

Origin of hyperdivision

From hyper- + division.

Questions about hyperdivision

What does hyperdivision mean?
Hyperdivision means extreme or excessive division.
What part of speech is hyperdivision?
Hyperdivision is a noun.

Words near hyperdivision in the dictionary

  1. hyperdiversified
  2. hyperdiversify
  3. hyperdiversities
  4. hyperdiversity
  5. hyperdivine
  6. hyperdivision
  7. hyperdocument
  8. hyperdocuments
  9. hyperdom
  10. hyperdominance
  11. hyperdominant

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