demarcation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=mar=ca=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

demarcation, n.
1 the act of marking a boundary or limits.
2 the trade-union practice of strictly assigning specific jobs to different unions.

Idiom

demarcation dispute an inter-union dispute about who does a particular job.

Derivative

demarcate v.tr. demarcator n.

Etymology

Sp. demarcaci{oacute}n f. demarcar mark the bounds of (as DE-, MARK(1))

THESAURUS

demarcation

alteration, analysis, anatomization, atomization, ban, bar, barring, blockade, bounding, boycott, change, circling-in, circumscribing, circumscription, contradistinction, debarment, debarring, definition, delimitation, desynonymization, determination, differencing, differentiation, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, diversification, division, embargo, encincture, exception, exclusion, hairsplitting, inadmissibility, inclusion-exclusion, individualization, individuation, injunction, lockout, microscopic distinction, modification, narrowing, nice distinction, nonadmission, nuance, omission, particularization, personalization, preclusion, prohibition, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restriction, segregation, separation, severalization, severance, shade of difference, specialization, specification, subtle distinction, taboo, trichoschistism, variation