The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
Congressional and official labor.
--E. Everett.
Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.
District \Dis"trict\, n. [LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See Distrain.]
(Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
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A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square.
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Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
These districts which between the tropics lie.
--Blackstone.Congressional district. See under Congressional.
District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court.
District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district.
District judge, one who presides over a district court.
District school, a public school for the children within a school district. [U.S.]
Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country.
WordNet
n. a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
Wikipedia
A congressional district is an electoral constituency that elects a single member of a congress. Countries with congressional districts include the United States, the Philippines, and Japan. A congressional district is based on population, which, in the United States, is taken using a census every ten years.
Usage examples of "congressional district".
Don't forget to insist that die national committee kick in for die congressional district and be darn sure some bright boy down town doesn't beat you to it and get his hands on it through a more direct pipeline to die national committee.
But as all brief periods of euphoria must come to an abrupt end, so did the temporary relief felt by the representative of the Ninth Congressional District of Colorado.
He lives in the same Congressional district and neighborhood (Warr Acres) as McDonald.
She tailors a new congressional district to fit her desired demographics.
For the past year Kennedy, aided by his wife, Jefferies and a few other close associates, had been negotiating with members of the Congressional District Committee to impose yet another tax on companies doing business in Washington.
Westminister III has the honor to be the Representative to the Congress of the United States from the Third Congressional District of the great state of South Carolina.
It also had the highest percentage of disabled veterans of any congressional district.
As soon as I had signed up people in every congressional district, I headed back to California, this time by the southern route so that I could stop at home.
Duffy of New York City's 13th Congressional District, suddenly remembered the fear he had experienced when he dropped behind the lines in France for the OSS in World War II.