Subdivide vs Subdivider - What's the difference?
subdivide | subdivider |
(ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
# (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
#* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:
(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions
* Dryden
As a verb subdivide
is to divide into smaller sections.As a noun subdivider is
one who subdivides real estate into separate lots.subdivide
English
Verb
- This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .
- Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.
- The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.