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{
"term": "district",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the City of London’s **financial district**"
},
{
"text": "Every city has its central **business district**."
},
{
"text": "The house is in a historic district."
},
{
"text": "Milan's most fashionable shopping district"
},
{
"text": "a poor district of the city"
},
{
"text": "rural/urban districts"
},
{
"text": "The apartment is approximately fifteen minutes from the downtown district."
},
{
"text": "The hotel is located within Beijing's business district."
},
{
"text": "Times Square is the entertainment district of New York."
},
{
"text": "a new railway station to help people commuting from outlying districts"
},
{
"text": "efforts to create a single business district in downtown Beijing"
},
{
"text": "the shacks in the poorest districts of the city"
},
{
"text": "The financial district of London is usually referred to as ‘the City’."
},
{
"text": "The house was like all the others in this exclusive residential district."
}
],
"topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["neighbouring/neighboring", "surrounding", "central"],
"verb + district": ["create", "draw", "redraw"],
"district + verb": ["stretch", "include something", "offer something"],
"district + noun": ["authority", "council", "attorney"],
"preposition": ["in a/the district", "within a/the district"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "one of the areas that a country, town or state is divided into for purposes of organization, with official boundaries (= borders)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a tax district"
},
{
"text": "a village in the Darjeeling district"
},
{
"text": "a **district judge**"
},
{
"text": "the district health authority"
},
{
"text": "They redrew districts to make sure Republican candidates would win."
},
{
"text": "The hospital is only responsible for patients within its own district."
},
{
"text": "Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results."
},
{
"text": "It's a heavily Democratic district."
},
{
"text": "He represented his district in Congress."
},
{
"text": "She hasn't yet registered to vote in her home district."
},
{
"text": "He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district."
},
{
"text": "Clinton barely won the district in 1996."
},
{
"text": "Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires in the city."
},
{
"text": "The district includes much of the Ribault River."
},
{
"text": "Their district stretches nearly 150 miles, from the mountains to the sea."
}
],
"topics": ["Geography"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["neighbouring/neighboring", "surrounding", "central"],
"verb + district": ["create", "draw", "redraw"],
"district + verb": ["stretch", "include something", "offer something"],
"district + noun": ["authority", "council", "attorney"],
"preposition": ["in a/the district", "within a/the district"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdɪstrɪkt/",
"audio": "di/district/district__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdɪstrɪkt/",
"audio": "di/district/district__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 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’."
}