Precinct vs Department - What's the difference?
precinct | department |
(chiefly, in the plural) An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
(UK) A pedestrianized and uncovered area.
(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
(US) A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
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A subdivision of an organization.
# One of the principal divisions of executive government
# One of the divisions of instructions
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:
(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(label) Act of departing; departure.
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As nouns the difference between precinct and department
is that precinct is an enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls while department is a part, portion, or subdivision.precinct
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Alternative forms
* (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia precinct) (en noun)References
department
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Noun
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- the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another
