arrondissement

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Let it be assumed, further, that the arrondissement is entitled to eight seats.

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  1. noun The chief administrative subdivision of a department in France.
  2. noun A municipal subdivision in some large French cities.

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  • In the seventeenth arrondissement, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe, the local branch of the centre-right UMP see things somewhat differently. —  cafebabel.com
  • At Chez Mamy in the 11th arrondissement, a customer chats with Pauline Clavel, who owns the restaurant with her daughter. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • *--The electoral area in France is the arrondissement, an administrative subdivision of (p. 318) the department. —  The Governments of Europe
  • It is the area from which are chosen the members of both the departmental general council and the council of the arrondissement, and it constitutes the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace. —  The Governments of Europe
  • Let it be assumed, further, that the arrondissement is entitled to eight seats. —  The Governments of Europe
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  1. French, from Old French, rounded projection on a wall, from arrondir, arrondiss-, to round out : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + rondir, to make round (from rond, round; see round1).

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  1. French, literally a rounding, from arrondiss-, stem of certain parts of arrondir, make round: see arrondi.
 

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