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  • verb Alternative spelling of provincialize.

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Examples

  • Sibiya said his department's plans to "provincialise" emergency services should help, as this would mean using a single emergency number.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Vavi said the Superior Courts Bill sought to do away with the specialist labour courts, cut Nedlac's role out in the appointment of judges, using the spurious argument of constitutionality and provincialise the role of the Labour Court by folding it into the provincial divisions of the High Court.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Unconstitutionally provincialise the national government powers over water, forestry and land;

    IFP STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR SECESSION 1995

  • - Unconstitutionally provincialise the national government powers over water, forestry and land;

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Nonconformists 'provincialism, the right way can hardly be to provincialise us all round.

    Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855

  • We must vehemently reject the attempt to localise and provincialise collective bargaining. "

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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