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The word "precinct" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an administrative district or a neighborhood within a larger city. For example, "The local precinct voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new proposal."
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precinct
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An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
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The next day we joined 100 friends and charity supporters in the Soas precinct for our first day to Brighton.
More than 10,000 people were expected to ring in the new year from Perth cultural precinct in Northbridge, where two stages hosted a variety of bands and performances.
Des Moines's television station KCCI reports: A spokeswoman with the Iowa Republican Party said True is not a precinct captain and he's not a county chairperson so he has no business talking about election results.
New openings over the last year include the recently completed Les Voûtes de la Major precinct of boutiques and restaurants near the cathedral and les Halles de La Major market, underneath Cathédrale de la Major, dedicated to gourmet foods.
He was shackled to an eyebolt – a latch to secure prisoners' cuffs or chains, like those found in many police precinct houses, but lower to the ground – and left alone for hours with music blasting.
This portion of Capri is not accessible to cars, and the narrow streets steeply lead away from the main shopping precinct.
Other Chicago cases detailed by the Guardian, centering on three people interrogated by Zuley who are still in state prison, turned up evidence in police precinct houses of severe and internationally condemned tactics in Guantánamo Bay interrogation rooms.
Witnesses, suspects or other Chicagoans who end up inside do not appear to have a public, searchable record entered into a database indicating where they are, as happens when someone is booked at a precinct.
Josh sliced through the grey pedestrian precinct in his box-fresh trainers and shiny puffer jacket like a returning pop star.
The suggestion by Edward True, mentioned earlier, is that instead of Romney winning two votes from his precinct in Moulton, Appanoose County, a "22" was typed instead of a 2. And thus history was made.
It was an extreme version of a technique Zuley used in Chicago: three people he sent to jail told the Guardian and allege in court documents that Zuley shackled them for hours to eyebolts in the wall of the precinct house at Belmont and Western avenues on Chicago's north side.
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