district official

collocation in English

meaningsofdistrictandofficial

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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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official
adjective
uk
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
relating to a position ...
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(Definition ofdistrictandofficialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What does thedistrictofficialdo who is given information about two competing plants within his constituency?
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My impression is that thedistrictofficialwill be in a difficult situation.
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My first reaction to such trouble was to call in the union'sdistrictofficialto persuade his members to go back to work before trying to get the dispute resolved.
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The response was that the firm decided to abandon recognition of the union after all that time, and thedistrictofficialwas ordered out of the factory.
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The first, which one almost always hears at rates protest meetings or when adistrictofficialor councillor makes a speech, is that we cannot cut services.
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Or, again, the rules might say that adistrictofficialhad power to call a strike whenever the district committee decided that strike action was justified.
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The town official represents the central government in the villages, thedistrictofficialhas authority over a group of villages.
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Since the first group were not subject to the principle of "incompatibilitas", they often held another title, usually that of a lesserdistrictofficialsuch as a "starosta".
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In some instances, district officials appointed politically influential veterans to administrative positions to ensure their loyalty.
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They were supported by district officials, who favoured anything to alleviate the severe drought affecting the area during the early 1980s.
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For every statistic that jumps out of the school report cards as an extreme, there probably is adistrictofficialwho can provide an explanation for it.
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It seems that this demarcation process generated problems between the forestry district officials who carried it out and some of the owners.
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Foresters and district officials often had a very poor knowledge of the extent, location, or even the names of forest reserves in their districts.
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When the caretaker was allied with a particular village faction, those of the other faction refused to listen, district officials lamented; every effort was made to choose a 'nonparty' man.
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It was at the secondary level of the process, in the departmental and district electoral assemblies, that the clergy, like all national, departmental, and district officials, would be selected.
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District officials were personally responsible for mistakes in allocation.
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District officials deny the approach is a strategy to get more funding.
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If that is done, then that problem is solved and there is no contradiction between the executives, the district officials and the rank and file.
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The district officials of the appropriate trade unions are kept informed and their representations considered.
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