Precinct

Noun

 * 1)  An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
 * 2)  A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
 * 4) 🇺🇸 A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government.  In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.

Adjectives for Precinct
attractive; holy; warm; hallowed; consecrated; awful; sordid; local.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
early 15th century, in sense of “district for government purposes”, from precinctum:, alternative form of praecinctum:, neuter singular of praecinctus:, perfect passive participle of   praecingo:, from prae: + cingo:, from which also cinch:.

Cognate to precingere:.

Translations

 * French:


 * Romanian: incintă


 * Finnish: piiri, poliisipiiri
 * French: district, arrondissement de commune


 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: vaalialue


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