transcription, транскрипция: [ prɒvɪns ]
( provinces)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A province is a large section of a country which has its own administration.
...the Algarve, Portugal’s southernmost province.
N-COUNT
2.
The provinces are all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated.
The government plans to transfer some 30,000 government jobs from Paris to the provinces.
N-PLURAL : usu the N
3.
If you say that a subject or activity is a particular person’s province , you mean that this person has a special interest in it, a special knowledge of it, or a special responsibility for it.
Industrial research is the province of the Department of Trade and Industry.
N-SING : with poss