administrative district
- noun
- /ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv ˈdɪstrɪkt/
:
distrito administrativo
- The city was divided into five administrative districts to improve local governance.
Examples
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The first local narratives of death and destruction in the Thirty Years War were usually supplications for a reduction in the tax burden or billeting of troops by a village or administrative district.
Academic text (1993) -
Lambda statistics reflecting the influence of ethnicity on location (administrative districts) for 1980 and 1991 have been calculated and are significantly smaller, but they show a pattern dissimilar to the postulated relationship.
Academic text (1997) -
At the national level, it has a secular government and a modern structure of administrative districts and regional governors.
Academic text (2005) -
Table 1: Population Densities in Administrative Districts
Academic text (1990) -
The region is characterized as semirural with 11 administrative districts.
Academic text (2008) -
Initially, there were thirty-three administrative districts, but in 1929 these were reduced to nine (a tenth embraced the capital, Belgrade).
Academic text (1993) -
The central governments of states, dominated by an ethnic majority, will be motivated to set up highly centralized political systems in the future based purely on administrative district boundaries, thus preventing autonomous self-government for provinces.
Academic text (1997) -
He has consolidated the country's 89 regions into seven administrative districts, each under a presidentially appointed prefect.
Academic text (2002) -
For example, when the administrative districts of Treffurt and Wanfried made a supplication about the distribution of troops in 1623, they identified two problems with different rhetorical resonances.
Academic text (1993) -
The new policy will affect all businesses operating within the administrative district.
Synonyms
1
2.8
A part of a city, like a neighbourhood, used for local government or shown on maps
1
3.7
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
An area set up for local government, like a region or district
How Big
209
3.0
949
1.0
- Formal
66
3.4
- US
∞
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'administrative' (related to management/administration) with 'district' (an area); together they denote an area used for administration. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English usage, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Administrative district comes from the simple image that administrative means run by officials and district means an area on a map. Imagine officials drawing lines to divide a town so each part can be managed and given services, and that's why it means 'an area set up by officials for administration'.