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catchment areacatch‧ment ar‧e‧a /ˈkætʃmənt ˌeəriə $ -ˌeriə/ noun [countable]   - Neither hospital was sufficiently remote from its catchment area to warrant the intervention of the centre to impose closure.
- Prep schools have no secure catchment area, they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival.
- The catchment area shown for the funnel is very small.
- The closure was doubly important because the catchment area covered the inner London districts of Westminster, Paddington and Hammersmith.
- The hospitals more remote from their catchment area were thus the natural early candidates for closure.
- To prevent your club becoming too large, restrict its catchment area.
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