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district
I. district adjective
Etymology: Latin districtus, from past participle of distringere to hinder, molest — more at distrain
obsolete : rigorous, strict
II. dis·trict \ˈdi(ˌ)strikt, -_strēkt\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin districtus coercive action, justice, jurisdiction, area of jurisdiction, district, from districtus, past participle of distringere to compel — more at distrain
1. obsolete : the territory under a feudal lord's jurisdiction
2. : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) marked off or defined for administrative, electoral, judicial, or other purposes: as
a. : an administrative unit established as a quasi-municipal corporation for the performance of a special governmental function or functions
< park district >
< water supply district >
< fire protection district >
< a police district >
< a postal district >
< a district school >
— see congressional district, drainage district, election district, magisterial district
b. : the most important administrative unit of a province or presidency in British India
c. : one of the subdivisions of the United States or of the individual states served by a particular federal or state court
d. : an ecclesiastical division of an English parish made under the Church Building Acts and having its own church and pastor
e. : an urban or rural subdivision of a British administrative county constituted by the Local Government Act of 1894 and having an urban or rural district council
f. : an area usually comprising several subordinate territories that is demarcated by a commercial firm for convenience of sales promotion, assignment to sales representatives, or distribution
< a district sales manager >
< a district representative >
3. : an area, region, or tract or a portion of one of these usually marked by a distinguishing quality, set of characteristics, devotion to a distinguishing purpose, or habitation by a more or less homogeneous group
< a barren district >
< a wooded district >
< a shopping district >
< a residential district >
< the Italian district >
4. : a subdivision of an embryonic field determined for the production of a specific definitive structure
III. district transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to divide or organize into districts
< attending to a new districting of the city >
< the area was districted according to population figures only >
< interlocking problems of zoning and school districting — Merrill Folsom > |