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Precinct

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Noun

1. precinct

a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Precinct

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noun
1. 
a. 
an enclosed area or building marked by a fixed boundary such as a wall
b. 
such a boundary
2. 
an area in a town, often closed to traffic, that is designed or reserved for a particular purpose
a shopping precinct
pedestrian precinct
3. US
a. 
a district of a city for administrative or police purposes
b. 
the police responsible for such a district
4. US
a polling or electoral district

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Precinct

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noun
1. 
a.  [usually pl.]
an enclosure between buildings, walls, etc.
b.  British
the grounds immediately surrounding a religious house or church
2.  [pl.]
environs; a neighborhood
3.  US
a. 
a division of a city, as for police administration
b. 
a subdivision of a ward, as for voting purposes
4.  British
an area in a town closed to motor traffic, as for shopping
5. 
any limited area, as of thought
6. 
a boundary

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Precinct

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n.
1.
a. A subdivision or district of a city or town under the jurisdiction of or patrolled by a specific unit of its police force.
b. The police station situated in and having jurisdiction over such a district.
2. An election district of a city or town.
3. often precincts
a. A place or enclosure marked off by definite limits, such as walls: the mysterious precincts of the old monastery.
b. A boundary: Hunting is not allowed within the precincts of the estate.
4. precincts The neighborhood or surrounding area; the environs.
5. often precincts An area of thought or action; a province or domain: "It was in these spacious precincts that Dryden's imagination was most at home" (Mark Van Doren).

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