Definition of "provinces" []

• Plural form of province. (noun)
• The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. See provincial. (noun)

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• "_The rest of the provinces are in the same situation_, as to a positive refusal to take the stamps, and threatening those who shall take them _to plunder and murder them_; and this affair stands _in all the provinces_, that, unless the act from its own nature enforce itself, nothing but a _very_ considerable military force can do it. ""
• "Furthermore, the economy of the provinces is always a good proving ground for the most effective and progressive federation-wide models and a testing ground for running strategic models for the economic development of the entire country."
• "Incidentally, the distribution among the other provinces is almost exactly proportionate to the distribution of the total population."