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PRECINCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("precinct" is a kind of...):
city district (a district of a town or city)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precinct"):
police precinct (a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force)
election district; voting precinct (one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling place)
Context examples:
Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty’s most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc. against the duty, etc.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
