jurisdictions

noun

plural of jurisdiction
as in governments
lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation) the United States has no jurisdiction over Cuba

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Recent Examples of jurisdictions Additional conflicts may arise in jurisdictions that prohibit cash customers from paying more than customers using other payment methods, a rule symmetric rounding can violate when a cash total rounds up. — Brian Delp, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Los Angeles could become one of the first major election jurisdictions to implement guidance or policy related to prediction markets. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 The High Line Canal is a 71-mile ditch, mostly owned by Denver Water, that runs through 11 jurisdictions from Waterton Canyon in Douglas County to Aurora. — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2026 Los Angeles County jurisdictions are expected to plan for roughly 812,000 new homes during the state’s 2021-29 housing cycle. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026 The agreements Weber and the Devils landed in the aftermath of New Jersey’s legalization of sports betting became a model for clubs in other jurisdictions. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Those can include wage garnishment or bank account levies in jurisdictions where they're permitted. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 Although the concept developed in the 1980s, police forces in jurisdictions as large as Los Angeles and as small as Los Gatos and Saratoga continue to use its methods. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 Smaller and more rural jurisdictions have also adopted one-year pauses, including Queen Anne’s County on the Eastern Shore and Washington County in Western Maryland. — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jurisdictions
  1. governments
  2. rules
  3. administrations
  4. regimes
Noun
  • With the leading models becoming ever more powerful, their ability to act in malicious ways is turning into a major threat for corporations and governments, especially as the risk involves hacking into critical computer systems and infrastructure.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • What is presented as a surplus is political math, the short-term cash-basis budget view that governments use (like your checkbook).
    — Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of governments
Noun
  • The question for several speakers was not necessarily whether data centers should exist in Marietta, but what rules should govern them.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • New federal rules are creating issues for states The federal rules in question were first proposed last year and were finalized in May.
    — P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of rules
Noun
  • Bringing sport into daily Parisian life has been an objective across successive city administrations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • If the project seems somewhat convoluted and unnecessarily complex, Dreier has emphasized that’s in part because the US space program has been subject to budget uncertainties and the shifting whims of presidential administrations.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of administrations
Noun
  • But opponents commonly connect it to communism, an authoritarian system associated with brutal regimes such as the Soviet Union and Cuba that believes the working class should take control through violent revolution.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Healthcare organizations face the same tension under HIPAA and equivalent regimes—patient data bound by residency and access rules, audited against frameworks that assume traceability.
    — Volodymyr Lebediev, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of regimes

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