WordNet
n. the commercial center of a town or city [syn: downtown]
Usage examples of "business district".
Past the business district, at Pepper Canyon, he turned north, and I tailed him easily from a block back.
This was obviously a business district, and native Suinomites swarmed markets and shops, all wearing dieren garments of one style or another.
The central business district fans out behind the northern edge of the square.
Outside the bus window, the gleaming security towers of the business district were being supplanted by an increasingly shabby landscape of jerry-rigged flatblocks and storefront businesses, each with its own garish squirt of chemical neon on the front.
He speeded up as he came to the better-lighted business district, drove to the amusement pier, parked his car, and walked down the lighted pathway between the concessions.
The exhaust from Nicholas's black Kawasaki rumbled off the facades of the prewar warehouses that closely lined the streets of this business district.
In centuries past, the heart and soul of Kalaman's business district was the famous open-air market.
From where they stood the city's roofs slanted down toward the heart of the business district, half a mile away.
Since Trish worked at the law firm, she had a pass that got us into the parking garage in the basement of the towering office building in the business district.