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Zoning

To divide into or assign sections or areas.

📖 Definitions of "Zoning"

verb
  1. 1

    To divide into or assign sections or areas.

    "Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group."

  2. 2

    To define the property use classification of an area.

    "This area was zoned for industrial use."

  3. 3

    To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

    "Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)"

  4. 4

    To girdle or encircle.

noun
  1. 1

    Legislative action for the purpose of regulating the use of property and the construction of buildings within the area under the jurisdiction of the legislative body concerned.

  2. 2

    The use of zones, such as fare zones.

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