noun
a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
• Hypernyms: ↑district, ↑territory, ↑territorial dominion, ↑dominion
• Part Holonyms: ↑American state
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noun : one of the territorial divisions of each state of the United States from which a member of the House of Representatives is elected — compare apportionment
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U.S. Govt.
one of a fixed number of districts into which a state is divided, each district electing one member to the national House of Representatives. Cf. assembly district, Senatorial district.
[1805-15, Amer.]
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Congressional district,
U.S. any one of the districts into which a state is divided. Each Congressional district is represented by one member in the House of Representatives.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.