precinct
US: /ˈpɹiˌsɪŋk/, /ˈpɹiˌsɪŋkt/
UK: /pɹˈiːsɪŋkt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
precinct /'pri:siɳkt/- danh từ
- khoảng rào, khoảng đất có vườn bao quanh (của một toà nhà, nhà thờ...)
- (số nhiều) vùng xung quanh, vùng ngoại vi, vùng ngoại ô (thành phố)
- giới hạn
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) khu vực tuyển cử; khu vực cảnh sát
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 (BrE) a commercial area in a town where cars cannot go: a pedestrian / shopping precinct
2 (AmE) one of the parts into which a town or city is divided in order to organize elections: voters in key precincts
3 (AmE) a part of a city that has its own police station; the police station in this area: Detective Hennessy of the 44th precinct + The murder occurred just a block from the precinct.
4 [usually pl.] the area around a place or a building, sometimes enclosed by a wall: the cathedral / college precincts + within the precincts of the castle
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 Usually, precincts. area, territory, region, province, environs, purlieus, borders, bounds, confines:
Does he have any authority outside the precincts of the city?
2 sphere, neighbourhood, zone, sector, section, quarter, district, locale:
In some US cities, the area covered by a police station is called a precinct.
Concise dictionary
precincts'prɪːsɪŋktnoun
+a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
