precinct
Other forms: precincts
A precinct is an area of town marked off for official purposes, often to vote, or to organize the police force. When a cop hears of a crime that's happening in her precinct, she knows to hop in her car and head over there.
The word precinct comes from the Latin precinctum meaning "enclosure, boundary line." A precinct is an area that has a clear boundary line around it, making it easier for the police to know where a crime is taking place, or where you should go to vote. The word precinct has also come to mean police headquarters in a particular district. If you're being held at the precinct, you're at the police station local to where you committed your crime.
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a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposestypes:police precincta precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police forceelection district, voting precinctone of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling placetype of:city districta district of a town or city
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a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police forcesynonyms: police precinct
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a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are broughtsynonyms: police headquarters, police station, station housetype of:stationa facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
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