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Any of the 31 populated places in Federal District (Distrito Federal), Brazil, which are officially designated as administrative regions.
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The armistice agreement signed between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918 to end World War I; (by extension) the end of World War I.
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An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
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A city or other place which acts as the center of government for a borough in Alaska, in the United States.
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(UK, specifically) Any of several bodies set up to determine the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies in the nations of the UK.
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subdivision of a land into small districts.
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(countable) The most important city in the field specified.
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(US) A subdivision of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, used by the United States Census Bureau to facilitate census-taking in the vast unorganized area.
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The highest level of government in a unitary state.
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An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
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An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
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(singular or plural) A point on the boundary of a city.
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(collective) The voters within such a district.
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The buildings and offices that powerful people, especially politicians, are visualised as inhabiting; (by extension) the highest tiers of government or other organisation, where important decisions are made.
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A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
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(historical) The whole of a county, as distinct from some portion of it
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A borough (or town), in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, whose government is independent of its local county council.
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The city in which the offices of county government are located.
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The administrative town of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom.
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A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
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An administrative division of an area.
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Of, belonging to, or pertaining to a district.
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(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
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One of the six regions into which most of England was divided for the purposes of collating the Great Domesday Book, each of which were assigned commissioners for the purposes of conducting the Domesday survey.
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A type of federal subdivision, often composed of a capital city
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(US) The national government of the United States, in contrast to government at the state level.
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(slang, government) The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people.
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(US, politics) Of an electoral district composed of two or more towns or precincts due to an inability of either town to produce a sufficient constituency for its own representation.
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Alternative form of free trade area [An international region in which obstacles to unrestricted trade have been reduced to a minimum.]
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(transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
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The center of an organization's operations or administration.
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Alternative form of gerrymander [(transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.]
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(administration, law) In the European union, a low-level administrative division of a country, ranked below a province, region, or state.
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An administrative board operating in a local government; specifically:
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Any form of government whose remit covers an area less than that of the nation and, in some cases, less than that of a state.
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Alternative form of gerrymander [(transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.]
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An administrative system that is equivalent to a prefecture or a department. It is used in Brazil as a third-level administration between state and micro-region.
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An administrative area in Brazil consisting of groups of municipalities bordering urban areas
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(US, geography) A primary governmental and/or administrative division of a county or county-equivalent, typically a municipal government such as a city, town, or civil township.
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A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
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(US) A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
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a system of population control in the ex-USSR, (regional) residence permit, registration
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An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
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(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
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(Britain, historical) A sanitary district established in an area not having a town government.
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(historical) Either of two types of civil authorities set up in England in the late 19th century to be responsible for public health.
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(politics) The Schengen Agreement: a treaty between countries in continental Europe abolishing mutual border controls and standardizing visa policy.
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The administrative centre, or capital, of a shire
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The capital city of a state (national subdivision).
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Any major administrative division of a state
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(UK) The building where the union provides such services.
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A clan, a subdivision of a phratry.
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(law) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
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(UK) any of the historic divisions of Great Britain no longer used for administrative purposes in favour of ceremonial counties and administrative counties
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(When capitalized as "Union Cemetery") An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
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(When capitalized as a proper noun, "Union Station") An instance of such a station, as for example Union Station in Toronto or Union Station in Los Angeles.
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(Britain, labor union) A public-sector trade union in the United Kingdom.
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In local government, a single-tier authority which replaces a two-tier structure. For example, in England, county councils are abolished and their responsibilities are transferred to boroughs and local government districts (but this only applies to some counties, not all). In some cases complete counties, such as Cornwall and Northumberland, are now unitary authorities without any subdivision into local government districts.
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(UK) A single-tier local authority that has responsibility for all government functions in its area
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(Britain, historical) A sanitary district that was established in a municipal borough.
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