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Fatimah0786 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Word request

What is the word for someone (say, a politician) who is excessively obsessed with a certain region in his country and doesn't allow the people of the same country but a different region to use it's resources and feels that people of a certain region should use the resources of that particular region only? Can we use the word 'parochial'?
  

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fatimah0786 Can we use the word 'parochial'? Because of possible confusion with religious institutions, I think I would use provincial . )

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  • fatimah0786 Can we use the word 'parochial'?
  • Because of possible confusion with religious institutions, I think I would use provincial .
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fatimah0786Can we use the word 'parochial'?
Because of possible confusion with religious institutions, I think I would use provincial. (Even in the US where we have states rather than provinces.)
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I was talking of regions within a state, even we don't have provinces?
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fatimah0786I was talking of regions within a state, even we don't have provinces?
I think that the term provincial is generic enough to use in your case.
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Parochial sounds fine to me. I very commonly see it used in non-religious contexts.
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I mean a non-religious context.
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