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catchment area

noun

catchment area

Also calledcatchment basindrainage areadrainage basin the area of land bounded by watersheds draining into a river, basin, or reservoir
the area from which people are allocated to a particular school, hospital, etc

catchment area

/ kăch′mənt,kĕch′- /

The area drained by a river or body of water.
The area that absorbs water that contributes to a specific region's groundwater supply.

He was off to see to another of his father's interests—that "catchment area" far away up in the mountains.

The noblest and most-varied scenery in the north-west Himalaya is in the catchment area of the Jhelam.

The Sutle; has a course of 900 miles, and a large catchment area in the hills.

Here the “antecedent” theory will not suffice, for there is no sufficient catchment area north of the snows to support it.

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