- school district
- noun Date: 1809 a unit for administration of a public-school system often comprising several towns within a state
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School district — School districts are a form of special purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. They exist mostly in the United States, where they operate nearly all government funded schools.United StatesPublic… … Wikipedia
School district — School School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, L. schola, Gr. ? leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as ?, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See {Scheme}.] 1. A… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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school district — ☆ school district n. a geographical division, with specified limits, whose school or schools are administered by a local board of education … English World dictionary
school district — n. A government entity that oversees the operation of public schools in a defined area. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
school district — school .district n an area in one state of the US that includes a number of schools which are governed together … Dictionary of contemporary English
school district — school ,district noun count an area within a U.S. state in which all the schools are managed by the same group of people … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
school district — noun a district whose public schools are administered together • Hypernyms: ↑administrative district, ↑administrative division, ↑territorial division * * * noun, pl ⋯ tricts [count] US : an area or region containing the schools that a school… … Useful english dictionary
School District 43 — A School District with the numbered designation of 43. Among them are:* School District 43 Coquitlam, British Columbia * Apache Junction Unified School District #43, Arizona * … Wikipedia
school district — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms school district : singular school district plural school districts an area within a US state in which all the schools are managed by the same group of people … English dictionary
school district — A local administrative authority with fixed territorial limits created by the legislature, and subordinate to its will, as an agent of the state for the sole purpose of administering the state s system of public education. 47 Am J1st Sch § 12. A… … Ballentine's law dictionary
