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precinct 音标拼音: [pr'is ,ɪŋkt] [pr'is ,ɪŋk] n. 选区,管理区,管辖区域 选区,管理区,管辖区域 precinct n 1: a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposesPrecinct \ Pre" cinct\ (?; 277), n. [ LL. praecinctum, fr. L. praecingere, praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before cingere to gird, surround. See { Pre-}, and { Cincture}.] 1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. " The precincts of light." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support. [ U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] The parish, or precinct, shall proceed to a new choice. -- Laws of Massachusetts. [ 1913 Webster] 161 Moby Thesaurus words for " precinct": Kreis, agora, ambit, amphitheater, approach, approximation, archbishopric, archdiocese, area, arena, arrondissement, athletic field, auditorium, background, bailiwick, bear garden, beat, bishopric, border, borderland, borders, borough, boundary, bounds, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canton, canvas, champaign, circle, circuit, circus, city, close borough, closeness, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, commune, compass, confines, congressional district, constablewick, convergence, county, course, demesne, departement, department, diocese, district, domain, dominion, duchy, election district, electoral district, electorate, environs, field, floor, foreground, forum, gerrymander, gerrymandered district, government, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hamlet, hemisphere, hippodrome, hundred, immediacy, immediate foreground, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, limits, lists, locale, magistracy, march, marketplace, mat, metropolis, metropolitan area, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, oblast, okrug, open forum, orb, orbit, palaestra, pale, parade ground, parish, pit, place, platform, pocket borough, precincts, principality, prize ring, propinquity, province, proximity, public square, purlieu, purlieus, quarter, range, realm, region, riding, ring, rotten borough, round, safe district, scene, scene of action, scenery, section, sector, setting, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, silk- stocking district, single- member district, site, soke, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stake, state, swing district, terrain, territory, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, town, township, vicinage, vicinity, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wrestling ring, zone
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