district: translation
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ 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-light
VERB + 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 sth
DISTRICT + 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.