- district
- nounADJECTIVE▪ neighbouring/neighboring, surrounding▪
Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires.
▪ central, downtown (AmE)▪Every city has its central business district.
▪The apartment is approximately fifteen minutes from the downtown district.
▪ outlying, remote▪a new station to help people commuting from outlying districts
▪ northern, southern, etc.▪ affluent, exclusive, rich, wealthy▪ poor, working-class▪the shacks in the poorest districts of the city
▪ slum▪ historic▪ conservation (AmE)▪ coastal, country, local, metropolitan, rural, suburban, urban▪ business, commercial, financial (AmE), industrial, residential, warehouse (esp. AmE)▪ arts, entertainment, shopping, theatre/theater▪Times Square is the entertainment district of New York.
▪ garment, meat-packing, mining (all AmE)▪ administrative▪ electoral, polling, voting (AmE)▪ congressional, federal, judicial, legislative (all in the US)▪a federal district court in New York
▪ postal (in the UK)▪ Democratic, Republican▪It's a heavily Democratic district.
▪ swing (= in which people often change who they vote for) (AmE)▪ home (esp. AmE)▪He hasn't yet registered to vote in his home district.
▪ health (esp. BrE), military, school (AmE)▪He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district.
▪The company supplies milk to Maine school districts.
▪ red-lightVERB + DISTRICT▪ create▪efforts to create a single business district in downtown Beijing
▪ draw, redraw (both AmE, politics)▪This Houston district was originally drawn to elect a Hispanic Democrat.
▪They redrew districts to make sure Republican candidates would win.
▪ represent▪He represented his district in Congress.
▪ win (AmE)▪Clinton barely won the district in 1996.
DISTRICT + VERB▪ stretch▪Their district stretches from the mountains to the sea.
▪ include sth▪The district includes much of the Ribault River.
▪ offer sth, provide sthDISTRICT + NOUN▪ authority, council▪the district health authority (in the UK)
▪ attorney, judge, official (all in the US)▪ councillor, nurse (both in the UK)▪ court (in the US)▪ hospital (in the UK)▪ office▪ boundary▪Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results.
PREPOSITION▪ in a/the district, within a/the district▪The hotel is located within Beijing's business district.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
