See Also: Federal Reserve District (Reserve district or district)(finance)
Federal Reserve District (Reserve district or district)(money)
District(medicine)
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district(2) (iou)



district noun & verb. E17.
[French from medieval Latin districtus (territory of) jurisdiction, from Latin district- pa. ppl stem of distringere: see DISTRAIN. Cf. STRICT.]
A. noun.
The territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord. Only in 17.
An area of country marked off for a special administrative or electoral purpose, or forming the responsibility of a particular officer or administrative body. M17.
London postal district, Metropolitan district, police district, etc.
b. Hist. A division of an Indian province or presidency under British rule, formerly the major unit of civil administration. L18.
c. A subdivision of a county or (since 1974) of a Scottish region. Orig. US. E19.
FEDERAL district. RURAL district. URBAN district.
d. A division of an Anglican parish with its own church or chapel and member of the clergy. E19.
e. In Methodist Churches, a territorial division comprising a number of circuits. M19.
f. An area assigned as the sphere of operation of a person or organization, esp. a midwife or a maternity hospital. M19.
An area with a recognizable identity or common characteristics; a locality, a region. E18.
Lake District: see LAKE noun2. red-light district: see RED adjective.
Oxford English Dictionary A manufacturing district; a purely agricultural district. E. Blishen The miserable greyness of the district. Day Lewis He was much sought after in the district as a 'healer'.
Comb.: district attorney US the prosecuting officer of a district; district auditor a civil servant responsible for auditing the accounts of local authorities; district court (a) US a Federal court of first instance; (b) NZ a court where all but the most serious civil and criminal cases are heard; district heating: of a district or group of buildings from a single central source of heat; district nurse a nurse who visits and treats patients in their homes, operating in an assigned area; district visitor a person appointed to work in a particular section of a parish under the direction of the parish clergy.
b. verb trans. Divide into districts. Chiefly US. L18.