Sectionalize (Verb)
Meaning
Divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The large city plan was designed to sectionalize the urban area into smaller districts for easier management.
- Historians studied the documents that decided to sectionalize the newly independent nation into provinces based on ethnic groups.
- As part of the reorganization, the company chose to sectionalize its service areas across the country for more local representation.
- The team of scientists made a crucial decision to sectionalize the research area in order to focus their study on different ecosystems.
- Since the country's founding, numerous governments had attempted to sectionalize it along ethnic and linguistic lines.