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- proper noun informal The
District of Columbia , the federal district of theUnited States . - proper noun Any of numerous governmental districts.
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Examples
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In January, an 80-20 district, District 46, was won by the Democrats by only 16 votes.
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Went to vote at 10: 30 am; the two electronic voting machines for my district (Ward 3, District 5) and the neighboring District which votes in the same location (Ward 3, District 3) were both broken.
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With Wendy Greuel having moved up to Controller and her former Council district under the control of a caretaker, some residents of CD2 say the District is going to hell.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Went to vote at 10: 30 am; the two electronic voting machines for my district (Ward 3, District 5) and the neighboring District which votes in the same location (Ward 3, District 3) were both broken.
NJ-SEN 2009
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Latas's supporters were rumored to be attempting a take over of some Pima County district clubs as a show of muscle flexing, but aside from District 26, it hasn't been as successful as they probably would have liked.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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Mlambo-Ngcuka in his state of the district presentation of progress the District municipality had made in the delivery of basic services to the communities as well as remaining challenges.
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RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From what we understand, Colleen, about 127,000 of these letters will be delivered to the constituents throughout the district -- the 18th District -- here today.
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Like I told our people when we had our first meeting with vice-president Schacter, when he was named district director of District 2, "I'm going to do my best to do a good job because we've always waited for a much bigger jurisdiction, and we've got it now, and I'm going to work at it."
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Congress over the District was "not for the benefit of the _District_," except as that is _connected_ with, and _a means of promoting_ the
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Congress over the District was "not for the benefit of the _District_," except as that is _connected_ with, and _a means of promoting_ the
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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