From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe regionsthe regionsBritish EnglishSG the parts of a country that are away from the capital city a government policy to relocate jobs from the capital to the regions → region
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the regions• The regions of the north have seen a faster deindustrialization in these terms than have the regions of the south.• Will all the regions be represented as well as the nations of the United Kingdom?• Thus the inequalities between the regions are further increased.• These divergent internal growth mechanisms will be reinforced by the nature of the interaction between the regions.• In many cases, such thinking has no bearing on what is happening in the regions.• The chief method of investigation is to be the collection of material from the various archive collections of the regions.• Third, an analysis of the inflow and outflow rates over the regions of the U K will be carried out. 