district
IPA: dˈɪstrɪkt
noun
- An administrative division of an area.
- An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
- (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
- (with determiner, informal) The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
- (with determiner, mostly local usage) Any of numerous governmental districts.
- (rail transport) The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.
verb
- (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
adjective
- (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
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Examples of "district" in Sentences
- District congressional seat, he's going to move into the district.
- In each district is a _district judge_, who holds a court four times a year.
- He said the district is a critical one for Republicans, and added that the organization may release a new ad there this week.
- Creating and profiting from a Sin district is merely the Mayors attempt to offset the millions in tax dollars he is losing to the Casinos outside the city limits.
- There are also in each district, a _district attorney_, to conduct suits on the part of the United States, and a _marshal_, whose business is similar to that of a sheriff.
- Each district has its _district attorney_, whose business is to prosecute offenders against the federal laws and to conduct civil cases in which the national government is either plaintiff or defendant.
- As soon as the forage of a certain district is consumed, the tribe, or rather army, of shepherds, makes a regular march to some fresh pastures; and thus acquires, in the ordinary occupations of the pastoral life, the practical knowledge of one of the most important and difficult operations of war.
- Michigan relating to primary schools make it the duty of the district board to exempt from the payment of teachers 'wages not only, but from providing fuel for the use of the district, all such persons residing therein as in their opinion ought to be exempted, and to admit the children of such persons to the school free of charge not only, but the district board is authorized to purchase, _at the expense of the district_, such books as may be necessary for the use of children thus admitted by them to the district school.
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