subdivide
IPA: sʌbdʌvˈaɪd
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
- (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions.
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Examples of "subdivide" in Sentences
- Don't subdivide Presbyterian camps.
- The people were subdivided into groups.
- Ex farmer finally wins right to subdivide.
- The Denison estate was subdivided in the 1850s.
- The western portion of the property was subdivided.
- The grantee could not subdivide or rent out the land.
- It is applied for planning permission to subdivide it.
- The larger the community, the more it tends to subdivide.
- The syndicate subdivided the land, and sold parcels of it the next year.
- Ailing elderly couple is unable to subdivide rural property in Merville.
- America in particular is so diverse you could literally subdivide infinitely.
- Once the basic shape is OK, you can 'subdivide' the planes with the click of a button and add more detail.
- To further frustrate the development, the purchasers of the campaign plots were encouraged to subdivide and sell on their land.
- Edison wanted to "subdivide" the light by using the softer glow obtained when electricity passes through a filament and heats it up until it glows.
- The most efficient way to handle multiple icing colors is to make a big batch of icing, then subdivide it, putting each into its own pastry bag and using them all at once.
- Some mutual-fund companies are creating funds that subdivide their holdings into different portions, and are employing specialists and even outside firms to oversee each "sleeve."
- Then go back and prioritize your master list and arrange the items into broad categories that could serve as the navigation on your site: Books do you subdivide Fiction & Non-Fiction?
- Pleistocene faunas from south China are difficult to subdivide based on the long temporal ranges of many taxa and a reduced number of genera in comparison to faunas from temperate north China.
- St. Vincent's has tapped real-estate firm Eastern Consolidated to sell the land to a developer or home builder, who could build one or two large estates or subdivide the area into as many as 16 two-acre plots.
- Government is simplest when it is unspecific—it's when it starts trying to subdivide the population and impact only targeted groups that it becomes hard to administer think of how little trouble seniors have accessing a universal program like Social Security versus how much trouble the poor have trying to determine eligibility for a means-tested program like Medicaid.