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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deanery
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▪ As a lead-up to national Youth Sunday, parish youth groups have already enjoyed two deanery events.
▪ Eight deaneries lay within it, of which only one - Woodborough itself-had any kind of urban character.
▪ He stayed at the deanery and talked far into the night about the needs of Durham and its diocese.
▪ In September, over 60 young people from across the deanery took part in a ten-pin bowling evening in Warrington.
▪ It poked its front door out into the green as though to challenge an equality with the deanery opposite.
▪ Organise a prayer service and/or information event for your parish or deanery.
▪ The main purpose of the meeting was to consider baptismal programmes in the eight deanery parishes.
▪ Their needs are met to varying degrees by the home, parish or deanery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deanery

Deanery \Dean"er*y\, n.; pl. Deaneries.

  1. The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

  2. The residence of a dean.
    --Shak.

  3. The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

    Each archdeaconry is divided into rural deaneries, and each deanery is divided into parishes.
    --Blackstone.

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Wiktionary
deanery

n. 1 The position held by a dean. 2 The house in which a dean lives. 3 The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.

WordNet
deanery

  1. n. the official residence of a dean

  2. the position or office of a dean [syn: deanship]

Wikipedia
Deanery

A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean.

Deanery (NHS)

An NHS Deanery is a regional organisation responsible for postgraduate medical and dental training, within the structure of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 2013, restructuring of the NHS in England led to its deaneries being incorporated into new bodies, known as Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), that have taken over these functions.

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July a special white, vellum-bound presentation copy is sent to Alice Liddell at the deanery, exactly three years after the celebrated expedition to Godstowe.

As Jarvis felt something like a consciousness that but for his folly the accident would not have happened, and also something very like shame for the manner he had shrunk from the danger Denbigh had so nobly met, he pretended a recall to his regiment, then on duty near London, and left the deanery.

He was an austere, grave, morose churchman, second chaplain to the Bishop, Archdeacon of Josas, having under him the two deaneries of Montlhéry and Châteaufort, and one hundred and seventy-four parish priests.