Definition of "federal district" []

• An area, such as the District of Columbia, that is reserved as the site of the national capital of a federation. (noun)

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• "Ralph was calling me three or four times a night, calling Woodrow Seals, who is a federal district judge now, all day long."
• "Members of the 1945–46 Congressional investigation heard about the Navy’s failure to timely decode Morimura’s message during the following exchange between investigator Gerhard Gesell later appointed a federal district judge in Washington, DC and Theodore Wilkinson, the Navy’s pre-Pearl Harbor intelligence chief:"
• "Traveling to Virginia in March 1790, L’Enfant surveyed the rolling plain of the new federal district and drew up plans that exceeded anything yet proposed, a complex of plazas and broad boulevards that would encompass some six thousand acres, fashioned closely after the extravagant French palace at Versailles."