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precinct
[ pree-singkt ]
noun
- a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
Synonyms: ward
- Also called precinct house. the police station in such a district.
- Also called election district. one of a fixed number of districts, each containing one polling place, into which a city, town, etc., is divided for voting purposes.
- a space or place of definite or understood limits.
Synonyms: territory
- Often precincts. an enclosing boundary or limit.
- precincts, the parts or regions immediately surrounding a place; environs:
the precincts of a town.
- Chiefly British. the ground immediately surrounding a church, temple, or the like.
- a walled or otherwise bounded or limited space within which a building or place is situated.
Synonyms: compound
precinct
/ ˈpriːsɪŋkt /
noun
- an enclosed area or building marked by a fixed boundary such as a wall
- such a boundary
- an area in a town, often closed to traffic, that is designed or reserved for a particular purpose
a shopping precinct
pedestrian precinct
- a district of a city for administrative or police purposes
- the police responsible for such a district
- a polling or electoral district
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of precinct1
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Example Sentences
Buses filled with cops from the 84th Precinct, where Liu had worked.
In an effort to gain early attention, he focused his attention on the Iowa precinct caucuses, which had never mattered much.
Bratton now announced that he was appointing Ramos an honorary chaplain at the 84th Precinct where he was assigned.
Ballinger was at first speechless when asked about the 75 Precinct reception.
His most recent assignment was the 84th Precinct, at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Now to live in this sacred precinct, as every one in Radnor knows, gives an immediate claim to distinction.
But the oldest gods of all, says Pausanias repeatedly, were rude stones in the temple or the temple precinct.
The democratic party finds in him a stanch supporter of its principles and he is now serving as chairman of his precinct.
Soon the captain of the precinct arrived, called his man off, and ordered my driver released.
The biographers as a rule have agreed that Lincoln received all of the votes cast in the New Salem precinct except three.
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