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precinct
/ˈpɹiˌsɪŋkt/
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What does precinct mean?
noun
- An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
- The general area surrounding a place, environs.
- A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
- A subdivision of a city or other locality for the purposes of voting and representation in local government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
- (archaic) A district over which someone or some body of people has control in general; province, sphere of control.
- (archaic) A surrounding boundary or limit.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɹiˌsɪŋkt/
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How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
For example, in one precinct in Detroit forty more votes were counted against our amendment than there were voters in the district.
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Without such purpose on her part, and unconsciously on his, she made the House of the Seven Gables like a home to him, and the garden a familiar precinct.
And for myself, most part of all this night, Within her quarter and mine own precinct I was employ’d in passing to and fro About relieving of the sentinels.
She cultivated from this time forward a little private plot of sentiment, and it was of this secluded precinct that, before her death, she gave her son the key.