- an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features
- the City of London’s financial district
- Every city has its central business district.
- The house is in a historic district.
- Milan's most fashionable shopping district
- a poor district of the city
- rural/urban districts
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyb2, Buildingsb2- The apartment is approximately fifteen minutes from the downtown district.
- The hotel is located within Beijing's business district.
- Times Square is the entertainment district of New York.
- a new railway station to help people commuting from outlying districts
- efforts to create a single business district in downtown Beijing
- the shacks in the poorest districts of the city
- The financial district of London is usually referred to as ‘the City’.
- The house was like all the others in this exclusive residential district.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neighbouring/neighboring
- surrounding
- central
- …
- create
- draw
- redraw
- …
- stretch
- include something
- offer something
- …
- authority
- council
- attorney
- …
- in a/the district
- within a/the district
- one of the areas that a country, town or state is divided into for purposes of organization, with official boundaries (= borders)
- a tax district
- a village in the Darjeeling district
- a district judge
- the district health authority
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyb2- They redrew districts to make sure Republican candidates would win.
- The hospital is only responsible for patients within its own district.
- Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results.
- It's a heavily Democratic district.
- He represented his district in Congress.
- She hasn't yet registered to vote in her home district.
- He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district.
- Clinton barely won the district in 1996.
- Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires in the city.
- The district includes much of the Ribault River.
- Their district stretches nearly 150 miles, from the mountains to the sea.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neighbouring/neighboring
- surrounding
- central
- …
- create
- draw
- redraw
- …
- stretch
- include something
- offer something
- …
- authority
- council
- attorney
- …
- in a/the district
- within a/the district
Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord): from French, from medieval Latin districtus ‘(territory of) jurisdiction’, from Latin distringere ‘draw apart’.
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