(In South Asia, esp. India and Bangladesh) a body administering local government at the zilla level; a district council; cf. parishadn. 1.
1957
The budget of the panchayat samiti would have to be approved by a zilla parishad consisting of the presidents of the constituent panchayat samitis, local M.L.A.s and M.P.s, and officials of various administrative and development departments in the district.
Times of India 21 October 1/5
1958
The establishment of Zila Parishads at the district level, Panchayat Samities at the bloc and Village Panchayats at the village levels.
Indian Journal Polit. Sciencevol. 19 352
1988
The Zia government..did not attempt to democratize the thana and zilla parishads.
Asian Surv.vol. 28 815
1992
The youth wing's lacklustre performance in the last zilla parishad and municipal council elections.
zilla parishad typically occurs about 0.03 times per million words in modern written English.
zilla parishad is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of zilla parishad, n., 1950–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1950
0.034
1960
0.033
1970
0.032
1980
0.03
1990
0.035
2000
0.035
2010
0.024
Frequency of zilla parishad, n., 2017–2024
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Modern frequency series are derived from a corpus of 20 billion words, covering the period from 2017 to the present. The corpus is mainly compiled from online news sources, and covers all major varieties of World English.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the corpus.
Period
Frequency per million words
2017
0.056
2018
0.054
2019
0.055
2020
0.063
2021
0.056
2022
0.054
2023
0.056
2024
0.055
Originally published as part of the entry for zilla, n.