neighbouring region
collocation in Englishmeaningsofneighbouringandregion
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neighbouring
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈneɪ.bər.ɪŋ/us/ˈneɪ.bər.ɪŋ/
Neighbouring places are next to or near ...
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region
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dʒən/us/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
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(Definition ofneighbouringandregionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It must prove that in thisneighbouringregioneveryone can live together in peace and mutual respect, irrespective of religious faith, political choice or ethnicity.
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Specimens from residents of one region may well be examined in a laboratory in aneighbouringregion.
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The new towns provide jobs for people who live in theneighbouringregion, just as some people who live in new towns find it convenient to work elsewhere.
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Daraban enjoys privileged geographic position in the whole ofneighbouringregionand this accounts for its burgeoning trade and population.
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A total of nine cases were diagnosed and only one death was recorded, fewer than in theneighbouringregion.
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Isolates from the same or neighbouring regions were distributed in both groups.
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She ultimately married someone else, as did her abductor, and they continued to live in neighbouring regions.
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Before it was founded, nobles from aneighbouringregionhad unlawfully built on the mountain a castle, which against a payment of compensation was now torn down.
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Alongside this central focus, more attention is required to deal with conflict and fragmentation : in families, in local communities and in neighbouring regions.
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This contrasted clearly with neighbouring regions, where the raising of the age of majority was more limited, or even absent altogether.
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Between each of these three regions there is a region where the sound pressures are intermediate between those of the neighbouring regions.
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There are, indeed, movements out of the south-east into other neighbouring regions.
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It would now be completely wrong, and this has also been discussed with the governments of neighbouring regions, to take a unilateral decision.
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Cross-border cooperation should contribute to integrated sustainable development between neighbouring regions.
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A modest export trade is based on the sale of agricultural produce to neighbouring regions.
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I would like in my own speech to stress that we must also practise good neighbourly cooperation in our neighbouring regions.
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We will continue to lend full support to the humanitarian relief operation, and efforts to prevent a possible spillover of the conflict into neighbouring regions.
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There is less public investment within our region than in neighbouring regions.
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