(Australia)Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts which are notmetropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significanttowns.
1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics,Year Book Australia[1], volume Issue 71, page94:
The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, InnerRegional Australia, OuterRegional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.
2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors,Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia[2], page03-1:
The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural andregional Australia.
2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson,Frommer′s Australia 2011[3], unnumbered page:
HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and manyregional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.
An entity or event withscope limited to a single region.
1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item onregionals′ omnivorous market menu”, inComputerworld[4], page125:
In the CPE[Customer Premises Equipment] market, all sevenregionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.
2001, Harold L. Vogel,Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis[5], page44:
Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their ownregionals:New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami[…]
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
