District City ˈdɪstrɪkt Business Financial House Noun London’s

• the city of london’s financial district
• every city has its central business district.
• the house is in a historic district.
• milan's most fashionable shopping district

district

1. an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features
• SEE ALSO red-light district
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/red-light-district
• the City of London’s financial district
• Every city has its central business district.
• The house is in a historic district.
• Milan's most fashionable shopping district
• a poor district of the city
• rural/urban districts

Extra Examples

• The apartment is approximately fifteen minutes from the downtown district.
• The hotel is located within Beijing's business district.
• Times Square is the entertainment district of New York.
• a new railway station to help people commuting from outlying districts
• efforts to create a single business district in downtown Beijing
• the shacks in the poorest districts of the city
• The financial district of London is usually referred to as ‘the City’.
• The house was like all the others in this exclusive residential district.
2. one of the areas that a country, town or state is divided into for purposes of organization, with official boundaries (= borders)
• SEE ALSO congressional district
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/congressional-district
• a tax/postal district
• a village in the Darjeeling district
• a district judge
• the district health authority

Extra Examples

• Delivery is free within the London postal district.
• a federal district court in New York
• They redrew districts to make sure Republican candidates would win.
• The hospital is only responsible for patients within its own district.
• Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results.
• It's a heavily Democratic district.
• He represented his district in Congress.
• He hasn't yet registered to vote in his home district.
• He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district.
• Clinton barely won the district in 1996.
• Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires in the city.
• The district includes much of the Ribault River.
• Their district stretches nearly 150 miles, from the mountains to the sea.
• The district council granted planning permission for ten new houses.

Word Origin

• early 17th cent. (denoting the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord): from French, from medieval Latin districtus ‘(territory of) jurisdiction’, from Latin distringere ‘draw apart’.