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US
/ˈpɹiˌsɪŋk, ˈpɹiˌsɪŋkt/
]
[ UK /pɹˈiːsɪŋkt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈiːsɪŋkt/ ]
NOUN
- a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
How To Use precinct In A Sentence
- According to CAF, the Museum precinct will essentially encompass the buildings, hangars and aprons on the airfield side of Williams Road.
- Several were taken to a police precinct and left there overnight.
- But any candidate who does not reach 15 percent in a given precinct is deemed ‘not viable,’ and his supporters will then pick another.
- Those delegates are pledged to individual candidates based on participation that begins in precinct caucuses on election night and ends in senatorial district caucuses at the state convention. The Texas Primacus–uh, Caucary - Swampland - TIME.com
- You mentioned the suspicious package was left in front of that precinct building.
- Arts and crafts have been crucial to the revival of Newtown as Johannesburg's cultural precinct.
- The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct.
- The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos . Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
- But the result proved that they were sufficiently to exercise, through the popular will and choice, the power which they had formerly put in action without its sanction, though within its proper precinct and with its title falsely inscribed. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
- The election chiefs also propose to do away with voting precincts.