catchment area
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++catch·ment ar·e·a /ˈkætʃmənt ˌeəriə $ -ˌeriə/ noun [countable] 1. British English the catchment area of a school, hospital etc is the area that its students, patients etc come from 〔学校〕学生来源地区；〔医院〕病人来源地区2. HE technical the area that a river or lake gets water from 〔为河流或湖泊供水的〕集水区，汇水盆地
Examples from the Corpus
catchment area• Neither hospital was sufficiently remote from its catchment area to warrant the intervention of the centre to impose closure.• To prevent your club becoming too large, restrict its catchment area.• Prep schools have no secure catchment area, they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival.• The closure was doubly important because the catchment area covered the inner London districts of Westminster, Paddington and Hammersmith.• The catchment area shown for the funnel is very small.• The hospitals more remote from their catchment area were thus the natural early candidates for closure.From Longman Business Dictionarycatchment areacatch‧ment a‧re‧a /ˈkætʃmənt ˌeəriə-ˌeriə/ noun [countable] MARKETINGthe area from which a store gets its customers, a school gets its students etcThe retailer provided a map of the store’s catchment area.catch·ment ar·e·a nounChineseSyllable
school, catchment hospital a the area of Corpus Business
catchment area
catch‧ment ar‧e‧a /ˈkætʃmənt ˌeəriə $ -ˌeriə/
noun [countable]
1. British English the catchment area of a school, hospital etc is the area that its students, patients etc come from
2. technical the area that a river or lake gets water from
catch‧ment ar‧e‧a /ˈkætʃmənt ˌeəriə $ -ˌeriə/
noun [countable]1. British English the catchment area of a school, hospital etc is the area that its students, patients etc come from
2. technical the area that a river or lake gets water from