community groups seeking to protect sectional interests
致力保护群体利益的社区组织
2TBCa sectionaldrawing or view of something shows what it would look like if it were cut from top to bottom, or from side to side 剖面的;截面的
a sectional view of the building
大楼的剖面图
3SEPARATEmade up of sections that can be put together or taken apart 拼合而成的,可拆卸的
a sectional sofa
组合沙发
Examples from the Corpus
sectional• Instead, the parties are more regional and the sectional bitterness worse than ever.• The speaker's sectional interests, as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else.• Members of the church's administration were divided among sectional lines.• the sectionaltennistournament• Perfectcopies must have the competition form and the fold-out sectional view of 44 Downing Street.
sectional interests• All this to modern eyes looks like, and indeed very often was, mereselfishdefence of local and sectional interests.• It was, indeed, antithetical to sectional interests.• The Commission is pledged to act independently of national or sectional interests.• The speaker's sectional interests, as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else.• It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests, since these will often conflict.• This gave them potentialpoliticalleverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.• Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client.