1usually precinctsThe area within the walls or perceived boundaries of a particular building or place.

一位仍在议院区域内工作的前议员。

1. 1.1 An enclosed or clearly defined area of ground around a cathedral, church, or college.
   （教堂或学校等围墙内的或有明确界限的）周围，区域
   the precincts of the abbey church

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   • This emphasis on Christian vocation beyond the precincts of the church itself and beyond the bounds of the Lutheran Communion has inspired liturgical creativity in many places.
   • The right place for " living history " re-enactments is a restored castle precinct.
   • In the second phase, which has not even been costed yet, an attempt would be make to make the art gallery, city library and King's Manor more a part of the St Mary's Abbey precinct.
   • The Rector of Leeds started the races, which were held in the precincts of the parish church in Kirkgate.
   • There, entering the temple precincts, was a poverty-stricken couple with a baby almost six weeks old!
   • A more despicable picture comes to view as one enters the precinct of the shrine.
   • The car park was an historic castle precinct.
   • His position with respect to provisional ballots cast outside of the voter's precinct was upheld last week by a federal court of appeals.
   • The Castle car park could be restored as a historic castle precinct and give us a public green space.
   • I'm starting to feel I'd like the whole thing kept IN the precincts of my church and OUT of the public sphere.
   • At the centre of the city was a sacred precinct with numerous public buildings.
   • It has invaded the precincts of both liturgical churches and free churches.
   • The four knights proceeded into the walled cathedral precinct.
   • Chaucer was buried in the Abbey only because the year before he had gone to live in a tenement in the Abbey's precincts, perhaps as a reward for loyal service as a courtier and civil servant.
   • The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct.

   Synonyms

   enclosure, close, quadrangle, court, courtyard

   informal quad

2British An area in a town designated for specific or restricted use, especially one which is closed to traffic.

一处步行区。

3North American A district of a city or town as defined for policing purposes.

1. 3.1 The police station situated in a precinct.
   分管区警所
   at the precinct a desk sergeant ran through her ID

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   • Discipline and training replace education for all but the privileged as schools increasingly take on an uncanny resemblance to oversized police precincts.
   • For one thing, police precincts were only able to send simple text messages to officers in the field.
   • Grandpa went to the police precinct and came back with handcuffs.
   • Reports have surfaced of celebrations in New York City police precincts immediately after the verdict was announced.
   • The crook was handcuffed and taken down to the police precinct.
   • No, for my troubles I received a free three-hour stay in a police precinct and a desk appearance ticket.
   • The British anatomist Sir Francis Galton pioneered fingerprinting for criminal identification, but records clerks implemented his techniques in police precincts.
   • Several were taken to a police precinct and left there overnight.
   • After his call had come in, another precinct, closer to his position, had dispatched officers to help him.
   • She sounded distressed, and he could almost hear her voice broke slightly as she gave him the address of a police precinct in New York City.
   • Talk to the police precinct and get crime statistics.
   • Unfortunately, a lot of police precincts, what they do is tend to focus on a primary suspect and then disregard any evidence to the contrary.
   • But just how effective can it be, when it angers commuters and packs police precincts with arrested activists?
   • You can't walk into a police precinct with intimate knowledge about these murders and claim a 200 year-old Puritan is responsible.
   • At police precincts in the city, the names of the 23 officers killed were read aloud.
   • Several times a week, police from each of the city's 76 precincts hook up with elite counter-terror units.
   • Police from the local precinct responded, cordoned off the area, and investigated the incident.
   • During the mapping period, East Harlem had only two bars, and one is located on the corner of a block where a police precinct is located.
   • Police precincts were keeping crime and arrest information from each other for fear of giving a rival commander an advantage.
   • She didn't think she could tell them that their little med school student daughter had spent the night at the police precinct.

   Synonyms

   police station, station
2. 3.2 An electoral district of a city or town served by a single polling station.
   （只设一个投票点的城镇）选民区
   with 35 per cent of the precincts declaring, he had 51 per cent of the vote

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   • If a state has two polling time closings, we're going to wait until the very last precinct closes before we even breathe a word about what we've got.
   • Secondly, exit polling needs to be banned from the premises of polling precincts due to their potential for misleading information and incorrect projections on the various networks.
   • The Green Party was unavailable to verify the number of delegates at its precinct caucus.
   • The central vote-counter was not programmed to expect more than 32,000 votes in any single precinct.
   • Democratic officials also reported stronger support in Democratic precincts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
   • But any candidate who does not reach 15 percent in a given precinct is deemed ‘not viable,’ and his supporters will then pick another.
   • In some Democratic precincts 25 percent of voters reportedly did not vote for president.
   • A candidate who doesn't muster the support of 15 percent in a precinct is not considered viable, and that candidate's supporters are allowed to make a second choice.
   • At the elementary school, converted into a polling station serving two precincts for the day, it was taking voters an average of one hour to vote.
   • Again, although there are few precincts reporting this, I have a hunch.
   • He also said a two-vote electoral system should also be adopted and that electoral precincts should be rezoned into smaller ones.
   • With 14 per cent of precincts reporting, 56 per cent of voters wanted him out while 44 favoured his staying in office.
   • Bipartisan negotiations to reorganize electoral precincts for the general elections in April next year are going to kick off within this week.
   • The sample should be at least 300 qualified responses taken from a cross-section of 20 voting precincts.
   • So that's part of the reason that Georgia has become the first and only state in the United States to have touch-screen voting in every single precinct, in every single county in the state.
   • The election chiefs also propose to do away with voting precincts.
   • The message communicated from my campaign is being shared the old-fashioned way, by walking precincts.
   • About half of 1,500 blank ballots in one precinct, at a church, got wet and nobody knows how.
   • A disproportionately high percentage of ballots later discarded for one reason or another were cast by minorities, as high as 31 percent in some precincts.
   • Absentee ballots will be delivered after the polls close to each precinct.