The Clue
Belt (6 letter answer)
The Answer
REGION
Tags
Notes
The answer REGION is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1500 puzzles.
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Neighborhood
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Mideast or Midwest
Several departments, maybe
Definition
REGION as a noun:
1. (region, part) = the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
2. (area, region) = a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region"
3. a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
4. (region, neighborhood) = the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
5. (domain, region, realm) = a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"