Society
- Administrative division, also known as a Country subdivision
- Census division, an official term in Canada and the United States
- Diairesis, Plato's method of definition by division
- Division (business), of a business entity is a distinct part of that business but the primary business is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the division
- Division (country subdivision), a name for a subsidiary state or prefecture of a country
- Division (sport), a group of teams in organised sport who compete for a divisional title
- Division (military), a unit typically consisting of between 10,000 to 20,000 troops
- In parliamentary procedure:
- Division of the assembly, to undertake a different voting method than the default
- Division of a question, to split a question into two or more questions
- Partition (politics), the process of changing national borders or separating political entities
- Police division, a large territorial unit of the British police
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Famous quotes containing the word society:
“I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (18421911)
“Sleeping in a bedit is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.”
—Rose Macaulay (18811958)
“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)