precinct
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- noun
- /ˈpriːsɪŋkt/
- US
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distrito
- The Mayor of New York planned this parade through his voting precinct...
- police precinct
- county precincts
- ward and precinct
You're going to have to come with us to the precinct because you've been arrested.
- You're going to have to come with us to the precinct because you've been arrested.
- And I remember I saw the third precinct burning on my phone in Minneapolis.
- And that sign said this is the Midtown S precinct.
- It bans nearly all out of precinct votes.
- In one particular state, the winning margin was just two votes per precinct.
- So living in what we would today call purple precincts, right?
- So then they wanted me to go downtown to the precinct, in the police precinct, and they wanted to get video of what's called a perp walk.
- Yeah, the the precinct had away with it.
- Anthony Anderson was in the precinct was in the precinct with a with a What's the main character?
- Maybe you have election mobiles that show up mobley into neighborhoods that have less precincts to vote in and let less places to go to.
Examples
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These phone calls were made to Club Hell from this precinct.
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That's actually the size of a single precinct in LA or New York.
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Why do we come to the precinct to talk?
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Colonel Shadow paid off the local precinct house for a very specific reason.
Fiction book (1993) -
While the General Assembly set the pay scale, it left each precinct to raise and pay the tax.
Academic text (1990) -
Police cars, 16th Precinct, attention.
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We're goin' to the precinct.
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I'm in the interrogation room of the Southern District Precinct House.
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You're going to have to come with us to the precinct because you've been arrested.
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Detectives are assigned to each precinct to ensure community safety and provide support to local residents.
Synonyms
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1.5
An area of a town or city used for local government
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3.4
A district of a city used to choose local officials
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An area of a city served by one police station
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An area that has one place where people go to vote
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An area of a town or city where people vote at one polling place
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A part of a city, like a neighbourhood, used for local government or shown on maps
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Etymology
The word precinct comes from Latin parts prae- 'before' and cingere 'to bind', so it originally meant an area that was 'bound' or 'marked off'. That's why a precinct today is a part of a city set aside for police work, voting, or a campus.