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单词 precinct
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precinct

noun
/ˈpriːsɪŋkt/
/ˈpriːsɪŋkt/
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  1. (British English) a commercial area in a town where cars cannot go
    • a pedestrian/shopping precinct
    Extra Examples
    • I rented a shop in a local precinct.
    • the £1.3-million redevelopment of the shopping precinct
    • the town's main pedestrian precinct
    Topics Shoppingc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • shopping
    • pedestrian
    • town-centre
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  2. (North American English) one of the parts into which a town or city is divided in order to organize elections
    • voters in key precincts
    Extra Examples
    • Campaigners walked door-to-door in targeted precincts.
    • Did you walk your precinct on the day of the vote?
    • Republicans have targeted precincts throughout the country.
    • The precinct returns show that the support received by both men was remarkable.
    • We're literally organizing leadership down to the precinct level.
    • You can register to vote in your precinct by showing proof of residence.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • key
    • targeted
    • Democratic
    verb + precinct
    • walk
    • target
    precinct + noun
    • caucus
    • captain
    • chairman
    preposition
    • in precinct
    phrases
    • the precinct level
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  3. (North American English) a part of a city that has its own police station; the police station in this area
    • Detective Hennessy of the 44th precinct
    • The murder occurred just a block from the precinct.
    Extra Examples
    • He was handcuffed and taken down to the police precinct.
    • He wrote yesterday from a police precinct house in New Orleans.
    • I went down to my local precinct to make a report.
    • The former Queens precinct commander has slashed crime.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • police
    • 17th
    • 102nd
    precinct + noun
    • house
    • commander
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  4. [usually plural] (formal) the area around a place or a building, sometimes surrounded by a wall
    • the cathedral/college precincts
    • within the precincts of the castle
    Extra Examples
    • All this took place within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.
    • He took up residence in chambers within the precinct of a monastery.
    • It was forbidden to enter the temple precincts.
    • The event was held in the precincts of the parish church.
    • The school uses many of the splendid medieval buildings in the cathedral precincts.
    • They had wandered beyond the precincts of the camp.
    • the sacred precinct of Apollo
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • sacred
    • inner
    • outer
    verb + precinct
    • enter
    preposition
    • in precinct
    • within precinct
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  5. Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an administrative district): from medieval Latin praecinctum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of praecingere ‘encircle’, from prae ‘before’ + cingere ‘gird’.
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