PRECINCT


Meaning of PRECINCT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

pedestrian precinct

shopping precinct

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

captain

I got fifty-nine precinct captains and they all got assistants, and they all got good jobs.

Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.

Daley leaned heavily on his precinct captains , charging Kennelly with inactivity.

Some policemen worked as precinct captains .

More than six hundred polling-place workers and precinct captains were brought to trial.

Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.

Then later I went to another ward as a Democratic precinct captain , where they were having a tough election.

Out in the neighborhoods his precinct captains are reporting to the ward committeemen, and they in turn are reporting to him.

pedestrian

However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts .

The Leeds pedestrian precinct and Centenary Square in Birmingham fail in several ways.

Beside and to the rear of it is a pedestrian precinct .

shopping

The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .

The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.

James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.

For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .

They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .

The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.

Many shopping precincts are also pedestrianised.

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

I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct .

the 12th Precinct

the fourteenth precinct

The mayor has lost support in many precincts of the city.

The suspect was taken to the 40th precinct in South Bronx.

They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.

They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Fordice had 359,884 votes.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All our needs were, as much as possible, attended to within the precincts of the town itself.

Buchanan also called on independents and Democrats to flood the precinct meetings Monday night.

James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.

Safely over the other side of the gate and out of the farm precincts, he ran up the hill towards the quarry.

Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.

Some precinct captains have had more jobs than they can remember.

The cloth marks a threshold, the boundary between the outside and the inside of a temporarily sacred precinct .

The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .

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