districtdis‧trict /ˈdɪstrɪkt/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] 
a house in a pleasant suburban district► see thesaurus at area2an area of a country, city etc that has official borders: a postal districtCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + districta rural district (=in the countryside)· There are few schools in the rural districts of Bangladesh.an urban district (=in a town)· In 1911 over three-quarters of the British people lived in urban districts.the surrounding districts (=in the area around or next to something)· The market attracts farmers from the surrounding district.a financial/business/commercial district (=where there are a lot of banks and other businesses)· He works in San Francisco’s financial district.a shopping district· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.an entertainment district (=where there are a lot of bars, clubs etc)· Visitors to Roppongi, Tokyo’s entertainment district, come to experience the latest fashions and have fun.a theatre district British English, a theater district American English:· The restaurant is located in the middle of New York’s theater district.a residential district (=where people live rather than work)· It is one of Paris’ most exclusive residential districts.a poor/wealthy district (=where a lot of people are poor/rich)· He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.a slum district (=where poor people live in very bad conditions)· Rats were running all over the slum districts.a fashionable district (=popular with rich or well-known people)· Brompton became a fashionable district to live in.
WORD ORIGINdistrict
Origin:
1600-1700 French, Medieval Latin districtus ‘area under control of a lord or judge’, from districtus ‘taken hold of, forced’, from the past participle of Latin distringere; ➔ DISTRESS1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Blaine works in the financial district.
- Their apartment is in the Chongwen district of Peking.
- Hence Phoenix always keeps at least two of its garbage districts in public hands-so it will always have the capacity to compete.
- In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.
- More significantly, in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood.
- Qualification for the pension was to be determined by newly-appointed district pensions committees.
- Statistics that I saw later pin-pointed the discrepancies between amounts of money allocated to the white and Negro districts.
- Stockman is spending $ 30, 000 in office funds to hold four electronic call-in shows back in his district.
- The two district courts that addressed this question reached opposite conclusions.
- Within the counties 36 districts instead of 164 would form a second tier.
THESAURUS
a part of a town or country, or of the world: · They live in a very wealthy area.· coastal areas
a large area of a country or the world: · the northwest region of Russia· desert regions
an area that is different from other areas around it in some way: · a war zone· a no-parking zone· We crossed two different time zones (=areas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.)
one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens: · the Chelsea district of Manhattanthe business/financial/theatre etc district: · the financial district of London
British English American English an area of a town where people live: · a friendly neighbourhood· There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
an area outside the centre of a city, where people live: · a suburb of Boston
an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live: · the French quarter of New Orleans
an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live: · He grew up in the slums of East London.
an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live: · a black baby born in the ghetto
Longman Language Activatoran area in or around a town or city an area in or around a town or city: area of: · The family lives in Roxbury, a working-class area of Boston.poor/rich area: · Raul grew up in a poor area of Buenos Aires.
one of the areas that a town or city is officially divided into, or one of the areas of a town or city where a particular group of people live or a particular activity happens: district of: · Their apartment is in the Chongwen district of Peking.business/financial/historical etc district: · Blaine works in the financial district.
British /neighborhood American one of the parts of a town or city: · The Cranstons live in a very wealthy neighbourhood.neighbourhood of: · I grew up in a quiet neighborhood of Birmingham.in the neighbourhood/neighborhood: · Are there any good restaurants in the neighborhood?
an area in a town or city that is lived in by people of a particular type or nationality: quarter of: · We rented a house in the Creole quarter of New Orleans.· The Dahdah palace is in the old Jewish quarter of Damascus.
part of a city that is officially divided from other parts because it is of a particular type: residential/commercial zone: · This is a residential zone -- no commercial buildings are allowed.pedestrian zone (=a zone where cars, motorcycles etc are not allowed): · Most of the town centre is now a pedestrian zone.
especially American a group of buildings in a city, with four streets around it - often used as a way of talking about distances in the city: · She lived three blocks away from me when we were kids.· Many of the families on our block are Hispanic-Americans.
an area away from the centre of a city, where people live, especially an area where there are houses with gardens: suburb of: · Amy teaches at a primary school in a suburb of Atlanta.the suburbs: · My family moved to the suburbs when I was ten.
American an area in an American town or city that is officially divided from other parts and that has its own police department etc: · the fourteenth precinct· The mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + district She works in the garment district of Manhattan.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1an area of a town or the countryside, especially one with particular featuresrural/financial/theatre etc district (=in the countryside)· There are few schools in the rural districts of Bangladesh.
(=in a town)· In 1911 over three-quarters of the British people lived in urban districts.
(=in the area around or next to something)· The market attracts farmers from the surrounding district.
(=where there are a lot of banks and other businesses)· He works in San Francisco’s financial district.
· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
(=where there are a lot of bars, clubs etc)· Visitors to Roppongi, Tokyo’s entertainment district, come to experience the latest fashions and have fun.
British English, a theater district American English:· The restaurant is located in the middle of New York’s theater district.
(=where people live rather than work)· It is one of Paris’ most exclusive residential districts.
(=where a lot of people are poor/rich)· He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.
(=where poor people live in very bad conditions)· Rats were running all over the slum districts.
(=popular with rich or well-known people)· Brompton became a fashionable district to live in.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She works in the garment district of Manhattan.· The police fired teargas in the central shopping district to disperse the rioters, creating panic among shoppers.· The city deserves a distinctive, central district to celebrate the arts, and itself.· The office-vacancy rate in the Makati central commercial district is just 5%, and properties there yield nearly 10%.· The protest added to momentum created during a larger demonstration Monday in the central business district.· Its central business district had lost 41 percent of its retail volume over the previous 15 years.· The central postal districts of six other major cities, including Birmingham and Manchester, will be similarly classified.· You're minutes from the central business district via our complimentary London taxi shuttle.
· By November the unions aim to have 100 volunteers working for the Democrats in each of 75 congressional districts.· A congressional district will hold about 625,000 Arizonans.· The rest of the delegates are apportioned by congressional districts, with the winner of each district getting three delegates.· Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.· Federal retirees would make a difference in close races in many sunbelt state congressional districts as well as Maryland and Virginia.· Three congressional districts contain parts of the county; one district is represented by a Democrat and the two others by Republicans.· Candidates get three delegates for each congressional district won, and 29 bonus delegates go to the overall statewide winner.· He is especially strong in the first and second congressional districts that stretch from Pensacola to Jacksonville on the East Coast.
· The decision was announced by federal district judge William Hoeveler at a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 11.· The country is divided into 20 states, two federal territories, a federal district around the capital and 72 federal dependencies.· The case bounced back and forth between a federal district judge and a court of appeals three times.· Decisions of the federal district courts are reported in the Federal Supplement and are similarly cited.· The federal district court, upon the request of the school board, ordered noninterference with desegregation.· When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.· The suit was dismissed last month by a federal district judge.
· The feasibility studies were very hastily carried out, however, and financial assumptions which district planners were working on were unclear.· He continued to the financial district.· San Francisco saw demonstrators gathering at the heart of its financial district.· By 2008 the artists' sketches of a red-roofed, neo-Levantine financial district will have become reality.
· A similar number of referrals came, however, from nearby large district general hospitals.· Among other large districts, the 64, 000-student San Francisco Unified has one administrator for every 16. 5 teachers.· But larger districts are usually fairer than small.· Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.· Council leaders will in turn sit on larger district bodies, and will have all-important control of police and local bureaucrats.· A receptionist in a new, busy and large district hospital.
· We were staying in a seedy hotel in San Francisco close to the red light district.· In the red light district he won his fame.
· In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.· One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.· Some universities fund crèches for their students; other crèches are supported by local district or county councils.· With funding from the Ford Foundation, it created local school districts in three neighborhoods.· The meat men come from all over the country and transport the ponies back to their local district to sell them.· Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.· State laws or local district policies usually allow teachers to be absent from school for the major holidays of recognized religions.· The careful coordination of services and programs to ensure that they meet local district needs. 3.
· In metropolitan areas the districts are responsible for education, social services and libraries.· For example, non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts are required to appoint chief education officers and directors of social services.· These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.· In most years, the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts.· The Conservatives' success in Solihull gave them control of their first metropolitan district council since 1995.· It would be a mistake to identify the metropolitan districts as urban-industrial and the periphery as rural.· As such it complements the introduction of unitary development plans for the metropolitan districts.· Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties, but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.
· A large upper floor in their poor district only cost three guilders a week.· That means poorer school districts get deeper discounts.· Since the 70s they have piled up in Kingston's poor districts, usually at election time.· It is unclear, too, whether any plan would satisfy the poorer districts.· Once more, the poorest districts could least afford provision from their own funds.· By then, we felt sufficiently established to begin work with women in the poorest districts of San Salvador.
· We were staying in a seedy hotel in San Francisco close to the red light district.· To be on the business side of boxing is to spend much of your time in the red light district of sports.· Do you know what the odds are against a house catching fire in the Red Triangle district of Bes Pelargic?· In the red light district he won his fame.
· District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.· No one living in a rural district can altogether escape the indirect power of these influences.· The district of Copeland includes the rural districts of Ennerdale and Millom where some of the greatest fall-out occurred.· Officials in rural districts covering a large area may drive long distances to perform their regular duties.· A preference for country living is clear, and in some remoter rural districts there was even a significant growth in population.· In many rural districts provision was still patchy and enforcement of attendance sporadic.· The corporation and the rural district council were in dispute about who should rehouse them.
· It was the ordinary police who prevented a complete collapse of law and order in the loyalist urban districts of Belfast.· The influx of fresh cash did enable Richmond Unified to become a model urban school district.· At one time there were no urban districts - they simply grow up around commercial and industrial interests.· By 1935 the population of the urban districts had grown to 295,000.· Within county areas, urban and rural districts to be created; 5.· The less-urbanized areas acquired a two-tier system of county government, accompanied by lower-tier urban and rural districts.
NOUN· Keating was arrested on Sept. 18 after the Los Angeles district attorney issued a 42-count state indictment against him and three others.· The district attorney has a videotape of you making that confession!· He is now the district attorney of San Francisco, Terence Hallinan.· Steen is very good as the besieged district attorney and Theron just eats up the screen.· But later Monday the district attorney said he had not discussed the matter with the coroner since his election in December.· The Bronx district attorney had argued that the policemen acted recklessly and were at fault.· The agency probably will recommend that the district attorney file misdemeanor animal cruelty and neglect charges against Broden, she said.
· Beyond its business district, the community has a strong residential base that includes a sizable percentage of retirees.· The worst area was Downtown, a 25-square-block warehouse district that made up the eastern third of the business district.· You're minutes from the central business district via our complimentary London taxi shuttle.· The protest added to momentum created during a larger demonstration Monday in the central business district.· But when he started spending funds in the direction of improving the downtown business district, he became an inspiring city leader.· Call from business districts were lower than usual.
· In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.· These agencies include district council recreation departments, local sports councils, voluntary organisations and clubs.· The biggest allocation for a district council in the region goes to Darlington which receives £700,000.· District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.· They do have some support and sympathy from the district council.· Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.· Parishes For local government purposes the parish had only existed within the boundaries of the former rural district councils.· Although district councils will have more scope to refuse applications, Labour councillors fear some policy controls could shift to central Government.
· He has an adult son, David, and is also a Mid Suffolk district councillor.· County and district councillors came along and after searching questions, agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice.· Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.· Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.· Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.· He also served as a district councillor for eight years, before retiring in July last year.· Recognising the problem, district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis.
· After 1885 the cost of prosecuting was less because cases were tried in police courts instead of district courts.· So held the court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit, reversing a district court in a Missouri case.· I remember standing in the district court before old Smokey Lewis.· All Supreme Court cases and selected district court cases were prosecuted by a government official.· Decisions of the federal district courts are reported in the Federal Supplement and are similarly cited.· The district court upheld the plan but was reversed by the court of appeals.· The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
· Patients not living in the two health districts were excluded.· How can health and local authorities develop cooperative procedures if care is spread across many health districts?· He has backed an appeal to raise enough money for a scanner machine for the North Tees health district.· Setting - Two health districts in Devon.· Doctors in West Cumbria health district could recall only seven cases in 14 years.· Nevertheless, fewer than half the health districts in the United Kingdom have established cardiac rehabilitation programmes.· The closures at Barts have come amid signs of a growing cash crisis this winter in several London health districts.· Setting - Two community psychogeriatric teams with similar operational policies in an inner London health district.
· The district judge refused both applications.· A district judge will decide later the amount of money and interest the musicians must receive from royalties.· A state district judge held Lenhart in contempt, when she refused to identify the grand jurors who spoke to her.· However this may be, it is plain that the district judge must have tacitly rejected the argument.· Limits for district judge candidates vary by county population.· Certain district judges who have been specially nominated and trained have power to act in public law cases.· Another district judge will now rule on what sanctions should be im posed on the company for its illegal behaviour.
· She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse.· Health visitors and district nurses will also be on site.· He and his wife, Carole, a district nurse, have two young sons.· The services included midwives, health visitors, district nurses and various clinics.· The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre.· Astonishingly, they both work full time, Jenny as a district nurse, Michael a doctor.· Using a person outside the family circle, such as the district nurse, is positively the last resort.
· Each month the district officer spent a whole day writing a full report to the political secretary in the provincial capital.· As they move forward, Tepilit, without warning, hurls his spear at the district officer from a few feet away.· The district officer wanted to know if suitable precautions had been taken to avoid the elephants.· Tepilit watches as the district officer performs a brief hokey-cokey before falling face down.· The laibon now talks about the famous incident when a district officer was killed.· Unfortunately the district officer stepped forward.· The district officer was eventually released on Oct. 13 and the other officials were released during the following week.
· California's political map is a chaotic mess of overlapping cities, counties and school districts.· In November 1993 the school district received an added boost when the Oregon Business Council selected it as a partner.· Academically, this is one of the country's top school districts.· Many of the partnerships transcended school district boundaries because companies operate regionally, but they all had strong community roots.· In the United States parents are actively encouraged to play a full and responsible part in their school and their school district.· Where the injuries to a student are not foreseeable, however, the school district will not be held liable.· He said school districts should reduce teacher paperwork, hire more clerical help and lighten teaching loads to reduce stress.· That means poorer school districts get deeper discounts.
VERB· John Lewis, who represents a district adjacent to Gingrich.· Ralph would be an excellent person to represent my district.· They represent different districts, different philosophies and different ways of doing business.· Better to have no one represent the district for the time being rather than this hypocrite.
a house in a pleasant suburban district► see thesaurus at area2an area of a country, city etc that has official borders: a postal districtCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + districta rural district (=in the countryside)· There are few schools in the rural districts of Bangladesh.an urban district (=in a town)· In 1911 over three-quarters of the British people lived in urban districts.the surrounding districts (=in the area around or next to something)· The market attracts farmers from the surrounding district.a financial/business/commercial district (=where there are a lot of banks and other businesses)· He works in San Francisco’s financial district.a shopping district· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.an entertainment district (=where there are a lot of bars, clubs etc)· Visitors to Roppongi, Tokyo’s entertainment district, come to experience the latest fashions and have fun.a theatre district British English, a theater district American English:· The restaurant is located in the middle of New York’s theater district.a residential district (=where people live rather than work)· It is one of Paris’ most exclusive residential districts.a poor/wealthy district (=where a lot of people are poor/rich)· He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.a slum district (=where poor people live in very bad conditions)· Rats were running all over the slum districts.a fashionable district (=popular with rich or well-known people)· Brompton became a fashionable district to live in.