{
  "id": "district.administrative",
  "term": "district",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "district",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a region that is a part of a big region and has its own boundary",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "region.spatial",
      "boundary.limit",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "The part of a region together with its boundary makes a distinct area of a big region.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "administrative identity",
      "local governance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 9th arrondissement in Paris has its own city hall and elected council, distinct within the larger Île-de-France region.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Special Economic Zone in Shenzhen, China, operates under different laws than surrounding Guangdong province.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Gila National Forest in New Mexico is partitioned into ranger districts, each managing its own land boundary.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "district",
    "districts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-district.administrative"
}