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zoned Definition


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zone
noun
    1. An area or region of a country, town, etc, especially one marked out for a special purpose or by a particular feature.
      Thesaurus: area, district, region, territory, section, community, neighbourhood, sector, tract, belt.
    2. geog.
      Any of the five horizontal bands into which the Earth's surface is divided by the Arctic Circle, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
verb zoned, zoning
    1. To divide it into zones; to mark it as a zone.
      Form: zone something off (also)
    2. To assign to a particular zone.
Etymology: 15c: from Greek zone girdle.



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