{
    "term": "district",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the City of London’s **financial district**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every city has its central **business district**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house is in a historic district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Milan's most fashionable shopping district"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a poor district of the city"
                },
                {
                    "text": "rural/urban districts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The apartment is approximately fifteen minutes from the downtown district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hotel is located within Beijing's business district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Times Square is the entertainment district of New York."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a new railway station to help people commuting from outlying districts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "efforts to create a single business district in downtown Beijing"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the shacks in the poorest districts of the city"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The financial district of London is usually referred to as ‘the City’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house was like all the others in this exclusive residential district."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["neighbouring/​neighboring", "surrounding", "central"],
                "verb + district": ["create", "draw", "redraw"],
                "district + verb": ["stretch", "include something", "offer something"],
                "district + noun": ["authority", "council", "attorney"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the district", "within a/​the district"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "one of the areas that a country, town or state is divided into for purposes of organization, with official boundaries (= borders)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a tax district"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a village in the Darjeeling district"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **district judge**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the district health authority"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They redrew districts to make sure Republican candidates would win."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hospital is only responsible for patients within its own district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a heavily Democratic district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He represented his district in Congress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She hasn't yet registered to vote in her home district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Clinton barely won the district in 1996."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The district includes much of the Ribault River."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their district stretches nearly 150 miles, from the mountains to the sea."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["neighbouring/​neighboring", "surrounding", "central"],
                "verb + district": ["create", "draw", "redraw"],
                "district + verb": ["stretch", "include something", "offer something"],
                "district + noun": ["authority", "council", "attorney"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the district", "within a/​the district"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪstrɪkt/",
                "audio": "di/district/district__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪstrɪkt/",
                "audio": "di/district/district__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’."
}