英语词汇“district courts”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

district /disˈtrikt/

noun

A portion of territory defined for political, judicial, educational, or other purposes (such as a registration district, a militia district, the District of Columbia)

Generally, an area, locality or region

(in local government) an administrative subdivision of a Scottish region or of an English or Welsh county

A constituency (US)

A subdivision of a division (Ind)

transitive verb

To divide into districts

ORIGIN: Fr, from LL dīstrictus jurisdiction, from dīstringere; see distrain

district attorney noun (US)

A public prosecutor for a district

district council noun

In British local government, the council elected to govern a district

district court noun

The federal court for a district in the USA
The lowest grade of Scottish criminal court

district heating noun

The distribution of heat from a central source to buildings in the surrounding area

district judge noun

(in England and Wales) a judicial officer for each county court and magistrates' court empowered to try certain cases, and to supervise certain stages of others (before 1991 called registrar and district registrar)

district nurse noun

A nurse appointed to attend to patients in their own homes

district visitor noun

A church worker who visits parishioners in a district