| 单词 | on the district |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the district e. The portion of country or of a town allotted to or occupied by any person as the sphere of his operations; particularly, a section of a parish allotted to a lay ‘visitor’, working under the clergyman. Also, spec. the area served by a maternity hospital or a midwife for home confinements; on the district (colloquial): see quot. 1933. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > for other specific purposes school rick1773 school district1794 district1854 highway parish1862 catchment area1945 1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 64 The Miss Shaws..have undertaken to get..a district appointed for us to visit. 1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 66 Several excellent persons..had attempted visiting and instructing the poor in his [sc. the vicar's] district. 1863 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 162 Visiting about in their ‘district’, and attending all sorts of meetings. 1888 A. T. Quiller-Couch in Echoes fr. Oxf. Mag. (1890) 104 There's no one to visit your ‘district’ Or make Mother Tettleby's soup. a1897 Mod. For this purpose the town has been divided into districts, and two canvassers appointed to each. 1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday ii. iii. 191 ‘Each of the London teaching hospitals undertakes the care of the parturient poor in its own district.’.. A student engaged on his three or six months' course of such midwifery is said to be ‘on the district’. 1961 Observer 7 May 35/3 The different conditions which exist in maternity hospitals and on the district. 1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? v. 87 ‘I'm me own boss on the district,’ Nurse Bailey..expounded the advantages of domiciliary work. 1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? v. 109 Midwives on the District recommend bed-rest but cannot enforce it. < as lemmas |
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