catchment area
noun
1
: an area that serves to catch water
2
: the geographical area served by an institution
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Overall, the changes would reduce the minimum number of multifamily units allowed as of right in these zones across the MBTA catchment area by about 18 percent, to 283,500, from 344,100 in the initial version. 
Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 The school, which opened in 2001, had a catchment area shaped like a reverse C, drawing from neighborhoods on the far sides of town — which is how Ms. Bowie ended up commuting to a wealthier area for school. New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022 But in the way stand Auroville’s youth center, a water catchment area and hundreds of trees. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022 Coleraine’s catchment area is the Causeway Coast and Glens local government area, with a population of 144,000, similar to Rochdale, Oldham and a host of other rugby league towns. Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 He was supposed to get double that amount from Iran, which controls 70% of the dam’s 7,000-square-mile catchment area and which recently activated a 29-mile diversionary tunnel siphoning away most of the Sirwan River. Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021 The fridge’s mechanical parts replenish their lubricant by recycling the oil that has pooled in the catchment area. Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021 However, when Les Halles, Paris's former food market opened in the same catchment area, the store struggled to retained its customers, eventually fell into disrepair, and was forced to close in 2005 for safety reasons. Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 23 June 2021 Third, stratify deidentified patient outcome data available regarding the clinical services the medical center provides not just by race and ethnicity but by ZIP code within the institution’s catchment area. Wari Allison, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021 See More
Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 The school, which opened in 2001, had a catchment area shaped like a reverse C, drawing from neighborhoods on the far sides of town — which is how Ms. Bowie ended up commuting to a wealthier area for school. New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022 But in the way stand Auroville’s youth center, a water catchment area and hundreds of trees. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022 Coleraine’s catchment area is the Causeway Coast and Glens local government area, with a population of 144,000, similar to Rochdale, Oldham and a host of other rugby league towns. Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 He was supposed to get double that amount from Iran, which controls 70% of the dam’s 7,000-square-mile catchment area and which recently activated a 29-mile diversionary tunnel siphoning away most of the Sirwan River. Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021 The fridge’s mechanical parts replenish their lubricant by recycling the oil that has pooled in the catchment area. Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021 However, when Les Halles, Paris's former food market opened in the same catchment area, the store struggled to retained its customers, eventually fell into disrepair, and was forced to close in 2005 for safety reasons. Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 23 June 2021 Third, stratify deidentified patient outcome data available regarding the clinical services the medical center provides not just by race and ethnicity but by ZIP code within the institution’s catchment area. Wari Allison, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Medical Definition
catchment area
noun
catch·ment area ˈkach-mənt- 
: the geographical area served by an institution