区く処しょ

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

administrative division; partitioning for governance

Rare term for dividing an area or organization into administrative units; mostly historical or bureaucratic. Modern Japanese more often uses 区分 or 分割.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの村むらを区く処しょする記き録ろくが残のこっている。

  Records remain of the administrative division of villages in the Edo period.

• この地ち域いきは昔むかし、郡ぐんに区く処しょされていた。

  This area was once divided into districts for administrative purposes.