0 a part of a city or a town in which vehicles are not allowed, used for a special purpose, such as shopping:
a shopping precinct
a pedestrian precinct
1 the area that surrounds a building or place, especially one with a wall around it:
2 a division of a city or a town, especially an area protected by a particular unit of the police or a division used for voting purposes:
3 a division of a city or town, esp. an area protected by one police station, or a division used for elections
the private precincts of the university
4 an area of a town or city where there are a lot of shops, and where traffic is not allowed:
a shopping/pedestrian precinct
5 a division of a city or a town, especially an area protected by a particular group of police or a division used for voting purposes:
In 1745, control of 440 sites outside the gates of temples and shrines and 227 cho within their precincts were transferred to the city magistrate.
Figure 12b shows the roof plan, lifetime precincts and programmatic areas of the scheme.
Building systems and materials of similar durabilit y are used within individual precincts.
The bounds in such precincts cannot rule out this possibility.
The bounds for these homogenous precincts provide the grounds for substantially stronger inferences.
They had to shorten or telescope the time taken to dispose of refuse in order to prevent its decomposition within the precincts of the city.
Thus, we can conclude with certainty that members of each party in that party's core precincts were strongly polarized on the ballot measure.
Finally, many cities did not have systematic criteria for identifying individual houses so that placing voters within their correct precincts and wards was extremely difficult.
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購物區, (市鎮中有特定用途的)區域, (尤指)徒步商業區…
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购物区, (市镇中有特定用途的)区域, (尤指)步行商业区…
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circonscription [feminine], centre [masculine] commercial, enceinte…
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