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Congressional district   /kəngrˈɛʃənəl dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Congressional district

noun
1.
A territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives.





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"Congressional district" Quotes from Famous Books



... some time during the winter of '64 and '65, received his quantum of a fund, of which we shall hereafter speak, to purchase arms to be distributed in the 1st Congressional district of Illinois, comprising the county of Cook, and the scene of the late Chicago conspiracy, the enactment of which was to be the signal for a general conflagration of our cities, and thus fulfil the prophecy of Jeff. Davis, that the grass would grow again, on the streets ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer


Words linked to "Congressional district" :   dominion, American state, territorial dominion, territory, district


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