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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or consisting of a canton or cantons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.

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  • adjective of or relating to a canton

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Examples

  • As part of the investigation, the latest effort to pry open the often opaque Swiss system, federal authorities are looking at Wall Street banks that provide banking services to the regional companies, known as cantonal banks, these people said.

    NYT > Home Page By LYNNLEY BROWNING 2010

  • The investigation will also look at Wall Street banks that provide banking services to these regional banks, known as cantonal banks, the paper said in an article published on

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • As part of the investigation, the latest effort to pry open the often opaque Swiss system, federal authorities are looking at Wall Street banks that provide banking services to the regional companies, known as cantonal banks, these people said.

    NYT > Global Home By LYNNLEY BROWNING 2010

  • The investigation will also look at Wall Street banks that provide banking services to these regional banks, known as cantonal banks, the paper said in an article published on

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The book could not have come at a worse time for Sarkozy, whose ruling right-of-centre UMP party is facing an onslaught by the extreme-right Front National in cantonal elections today.

    Book on Nicolas Sarkozy reveals what he really thinks about his ministers 2011

  • Prosecutors also are investigating several smaller cantonal banks in Switzerland, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Offshore Banks Subject of Grand Jury Probes Evan Perez 2011

  • The scrutiny of the three Swiss branches of the Israeli banks is at an early stage and has not reached the level of that of Credit Suisse, which received a target letter from the Justice Department in July, or of HSBC Holdings, a major European bank, and Basler Kantonalbank, a Swiss cantonal bank, said the people briefed on the matter.

    Exclusive: U.S. tax-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks Reuters 2011

  • "It's difficult to say what the current development could mean in the long term, but many people are overwhelmed by Zug's rapid development from a farming town into a global village," says Barbara Gysel , president of the Social Democrats in the canton and member of the cantonal parliament.

    Swiss Region's Boom Breeds Discontent Goran Mijuk 2011

  • The scrutiny of the three Swiss branches of the Israeli banks is at an early stage and has not reached the level of that of Credit Suisse, which received a target letter from the Justice Department in July, or of HSBC Holdings, a major European bank, and Basler Kantonalbank, a Swiss cantonal bank, said the people briefed on the matter.

    Exclusive: U.S. tax-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks Reuters 2011

  • If the proposal passes, it could start supplying new textbooks in dialects next year, says Ivo Berther, a cantonal official.

    Swiss Effort to Save a Language Opens a Rift Deborah Ball 2011

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