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hyperdivision en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + division.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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: