catchment areanoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkætʃ.mənt ˌeə.ri.ə/us/ˈkætʃ.mənt ˌer.i.ə/UKthe area served by a school:
They want their son to go to St Mary's, but they're not in the catchment area.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- parameter
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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