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BUSINESS DISTRICT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does business district mean?
• BUSINESS DISTRICT (noun)
The noun BUSINESS DISTRICT has 1 sense:
1. the central area or commercial center of a town or city
Familiarity information: BUSINESS DISTRICT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The central area or commercial center of a town or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
business district; downtown
Context example:
the heart of Birmingham's downtown
Hypernyms ("business district" is a kind of...):
city district (a district of a town or city)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "business district"):
Tin Pan Alley (a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business)
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