{
  "id": "county.administrative",
  "term": "county",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "county",
  "domain": "administrative",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a bounded area that is organized by local governance within a large state",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "area.spatial",
      "boundary.limit",
      "governance.administrative",
      "big.size",
      "large.size",
      "local.spatial",
      "organized.structure",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "the area is bounded by a limit and organized through local governance, forming a coherent administrative unit within a larger state",
    "novel_properties": [
      "jurisdictional authority",
      "nested territorial division",
      "persistent local governance structure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Los Angeles County governs 10 million people across 4,750 square miles in southern California.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cook County, Illinois, operates its own health system and processes 1.2 million ballots in elections.",
      "domain": "governance"
    },
    {
      "text": "York County in Maine manages emergency services for 210,000 residents using locally elected commissioners.",
      "domain": "local"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "area.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "counties",
    "county"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'large.size' to components since the definition specifies 'large state', which depends on the concept of largeness beyond mere 'big.size'."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-county.administrative"
}