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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subdivide.

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Examples

  • First, there was the idea of subdividing armies into permanent, self-contained contained divisions.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • First, there was the idea of subdividing armies into permanent, self-contained contained divisions.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The most important literary and artistic fact of the nineteenth century is the subdivision of labour -- that is, the subdividing of every man's life and telling him he must only be alive in a part of it.

    The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

  • He had more land than he needed and some time ago toyed with the idea of subdividing and selling it off.

    CNN.com 2010

  • He had more land than he needed and some time ago toyed with the idea of subdividing and selling it off.

    Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com 2010

  • He had more land than he needed and some time ago toyed with the idea of subdividing and selling it off.

    CNN.com 2010

  • A buyer might have other profit-motivated plans for 220 acres near Oso Creek, such as subdividing and building more homes.

    Corpus Christi Caller Times Stories 2010

  • Anyone living on rural land needs to have a hard look at the proposed bylaw 641 for subdividing which is available on the CSRD website (www. csrd.bc.ca).

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

  • The editing process will continue, but I'm likely to chip away at the "easy edges" of it before I undertake a major "step-through" such as subdividing the blogs or anarchist music.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

    Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’ 2010

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