precinct
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pre·cinct /ˈpriːsɪŋkt/ noun 1. shopping/pedestrian precinct British EnglishTTR an area of a town where people can walk and shop, and where cars are not allowed 购物区/步行区2. [countable] American EnglishPG one of the areas that a town or city is divided into, so that elections or police work can be organized more easily 选区；警区3. [countable] American EnglishSCP the main police station in a particular area of a town or city 〔城镇警区的〕警察分局4 precincts [plural]AREA the area that surrounds an important building 〔某主要建筑物的〕周围区域 the precincts of the cathedral 大教堂周围区域
Examples from the Corpus
precinct• the 12th Precinct• The suspect was taken to the 40th precinct in South Bronx.• Safely over the other side of the gate and out of the farm precincts, he ran up the hill towards the quarry.• the fourteenth precinct• The mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.• With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Fordice had 359,884 votes.• I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct.• The cloth marks a threshold, the boundary between the outside and the inside of a temporarily sacred precinct.• James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.• The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.• They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.• Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.• Buchanan also called on independents and Democrats to flood the precinct meetings Monday night.• They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.• Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.• All our needs were, as much as possible, attended to within the precincts of the town itself.From Longman Business Dictionaryprecinctpre‧cinct /ˈpriːsɪŋkt/ noun [countable]1British English an area of a city with many different shops, where cars are not allowedThe hotel is within five minutes of the main shopping precinct.2American English an area in a city with its own local government, police force etcworking-class black precinctsOrigin precinct (1400-1500) Medieval Latin praecinctum, from Latin praecingere “to put a belt around”pre·cinct nounChineseSyllable
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precinct
pre‧cinct /ˈpriːsɪŋkt/
noun
2. [countable] American English one of the areas that a town or city is divided into, so that elections or police work can be organized more easily
3. [countable] American English the main police station in a particular area of a town or city
4. precincts [plural] the area that surrounds an important building:
the precincts of the cathedral
pre‧cinct /ˈpriːsɪŋkt/
noun Date: 1400-1500
Language: Medieval Latin
Origin: praecinctum, from Latin praecingere 'to put a belt around'
1. [countable]shopping/pedestrian precinct British English an area of a town where people can walk and shop, and where cars are not allowedLanguage: Medieval Latin
Origin: praecinctum, from Latin praecingere 'to put a belt around'
2. [countable] American English one of the areas that a town or city is divided into, so that elections or police work can be organized more easily
3. [countable] American English the main police station in a particular area of a town or city
4. precincts [plural] the area that surrounds an important building: