0 a border or a rule that shows the limits of something or how things are divided:
1 a line or rule that shows the limits of something or how things are divided, or the act of dividing something in a particular way:
Careful market demarcation is an essential element of all strategic sales planning.
The bank is establishing a clear line of demarcation between its investment and retail banking businesses.
2 a division of jobs, in which each job can only be done by members of a particular trade union or members who have a particular position in a union:
The restructuring of the company has challenged the union's traditional demarcation lines.
There is a clear demarcation amongst the approaches used to compare organic and non-organic farming.
The body, its demarcation and differentiation, is a regulatory ideal whose materialisation takes place through certain highly regulated, powerful cultural practices.
Demarcation applies also to the debates in which scientists engage, where criticism is exercised.
The demarcation of wealth boundaries is a minimum definition, suggesting only that the ' middle sort ' lie somewhere within.
Besides conserving soil and water they also function as property demarcations.
The rapidity with which social demarcations get consolidated aboard ship reveals the profound impact of class performatives on the life of the nation.
What were once clearly defined professional demarcation lines will become blurred and what once was pride of commercial independence will become constructive interdependence.
The demarcation boundaries for the amplification (instability) zone were found to resemble the corresponding limits of boundary-layer instability at lower speeds.
