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inter-regional en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + regional.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of interregional.
    • During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on. 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224:
    • Rather similar simple forms can be found over the whole area, and there are also specific inter-regional types, such as the widely distributed rod-headed figurines. 1996, A. W. R. Whittle, Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 64: