precinct

«precinct» in Mova's school dictionary: A district of a city that has its own police station… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a precinct, precincts)

meaning for a pupil

1) (USA) A district of a city that has its own police station; also the police station itself. tree →

2) (UK) A shopping area where cars are not allowed (a shopping precinct). tree →

3) The area around a building, often enclosed, like a cathedral precinct. tree →

4) (USA) A voting district. tree →

sense in the lessons

In American police stories, detectives work at «the 9th precinct». In Britain, families shop in the precinct.

examples

• The officer works at the 12th precinct. tree →
• We met in the shopping precinct. tree →
• The cathedral precincts were quiet. tree →
• (USA) Voters went to their precinct to vote. tree →
• The precinct was closed to cars. tree →
• No running in the school precincts. tree →

note

Plural: precincts. Meaning differs by country.

In the corpora

• For the Precinct westward, four at the causeway, and two at the Precinct.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «precinct» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.