noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pedestrian precinct
shopping precinct
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
captain
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I got fifty-nine precinct captains and they all got assistants, and they all got good jobs.
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Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.
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Daley leaned heavily on his precinct captains , charging Kennelly with inactivity.
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Some policemen worked as precinct captains .
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More than six hundred polling-place workers and precinct captains were brought to trial.
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Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.
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Then later I went to another ward as a Democratic precinct captain , where they were having a tough election.
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Out in the neighborhoods his precinct captains are reporting to the ward committeemen, and they in turn are reporting to him.
pedestrian
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However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts .
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The Leeds pedestrian precinct and Centenary Square in Birmingham fail in several ways.
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Beside and to the rear of it is a pedestrian precinct .
shopping
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .
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The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .
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They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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Many shopping precincts are also pedestrianised.
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The security firm Chubb said yesterday that further copies of the document had been discovered in a West Country shopping precinct .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct .
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the 12th Precinct
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the fourteenth precinct
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The mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.
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The suspect was taken to the 40th precinct in South Bronx.
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They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.
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They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.
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With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Fordice had 359,884 votes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All our needs were, as much as possible, attended to within the precincts of the town itself.
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Buchanan also called on independents and Democrats to flood the precinct meetings Monday night.
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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Safely over the other side of the gate and out of the farm precincts, he ran up the hill towards the quarry.
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Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.
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Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.
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The cloth marks a threshold, the boundary between the outside and the inside of a temporarily sacred precinct .
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .