catchment area
- IPA[ˈkɛtʃmənt ˈɛriə]
美式
- the area from which rainfall flows into a river, lake, or reservoir.;the area of a city, town, etc., from which a hospital's patients or school's students are drawn.
noun: catchment area, plural noun: catchment areas
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- IPA[ˈkatʃm(ə)nt ˌɛːrɪə]
英式
- the area from which a hospital's patients or school's pupils are drawn: she lives outside the school's catchment area
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