catchment area
noun [ C ] uk/ˈkætʃ.mənt ˌeə.ri.ə/ us/ˈkætʃ.mənt ˌer.i.ə/ (also catchment)
mainly UK（学校的）招生地区;（医院的）服务地区，管片区域
the area served by a school
They want their son to go to St Mary's, but they're not in the catchment area. 他们想让儿子上圣玛丽学校，但是他们的家不在学校的招生地区内。
The school has a very small catchment area of only about a mile radius.
Catchments for local primary schools are fairly small.
- More examples
- The Dart Valley is the catchment area of the river from Dartmoor down to the sea.
- They could run a pipeline from the upper catchment areas of the river.
- This beautiful reservoir and its catchment area of heather moorland and conifer forest are managed by the Trust.
- Being in the catchment area for a good school could add value to your house.
- The authorities were trying to find out if people lied about what catchment area they lived in.
- I wanted to move the children out of this catchment area.
- The area is not within the catchment area of the doctor’s present practice.