province
noun
Synonyms
function, office, duty, province mean the acts or operations expected of a person or thing.
function implies a definite end or purpose or a particular kind of work.
Aldous Huxley
office is typically applied to the function or service associated with a trade or profession or a special relationship to others.
W. E. Gladstone
duty applies to a task or responsibility imposed by one's occupation, rank, status, or calling.
R. B. Taney
province applies to a function, office, or duty that naturally or logically falls to one.
Anne Brontë
Examples of province in a Sentence
Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2024
In October 2022, a 34-year-old former police officer who had been fired for possession of meth stormed a day-care center in Nong Bua Lamphu province and fatally shot or stabbed 36 people — most of them children.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
In keeping with that story line, the unlikely state of Florida has a team in the Final for a fifth year in a row — something no other U.S. state or Canadian province has done.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
Aid workers are stretched thin in a remote province roughly the size of Maine with few paved roads, where insurgents still roam freely.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
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“Province.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/province. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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