PRECINCT Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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precinct

[ pree-singkt ]

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noun

a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
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Also called pre顎僣inct house顎�. the police station in such a district.
Also called election district. one of a fixed number of districts, each containing one polling place, into which a city, town, etc., is divided for voting purposes.
a space or place of definite or understood limits.
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Often precincts. an enclosing boundary or limit.
precincts, the parts or regions immediately surrounding a place; environs:
the precincts of a town.
Chiefly British. the ground immediately surrounding a church, temple, or the like.
a walled or otherwise bounded or limited space within which a building or place is situated.
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precinct

/ 藞辫谤颈藧蝉瑟艐办迟 /

noun

1. an enclosed area or building marked by a fixed boundary such as a wall
2. such a boundary
an area in a town, often closed to traffic, that is designed or reserved for a particular purpose
a shopping precinct
pedestrian precinct
1. a district of a city for administrative or police purposes
2. the police responsible for such a district
a polling or electoral district

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of precinct¹

1350鈥�1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin praecinctum, noun use of neuter of Latin praecinctus, past participle of praecingere to gird about, surround, equivalent to prae- pre- + cing- (stem of cingere to surround; cinch ¹ ) + -tus past participle suffix

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of precinct¹

C15: from Medieval Latin praecinctum (something) surrounded, from Latin praecingere to gird around, from prae before, around + cingere to gird

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The store sits in a bylane in the central Indian city of Mumbai's busy shopping precinct, and has served the community for 75 years.

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"It's shocking that something like that can happen in a main shopping precinct in the middle of the day. It's just so sad."

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Ninety-two percent of the precincts that went for Trump also voted 鈥淵es鈥� on 36 and for Hochman for district attorney.

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Harris still held strongholds in the neighborhood鈥檚 two other precincts, which bleed into Beverly Hills and Carthay Square, and tallied a total of 7,321 votes across the five.

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Voters here prefer to vote in person at their neighborhood polling precincts and some are still getting used to receiving a ballot in the mail, Valadez said.

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