business district

Other forms: business districts

Definitions of business district
  1. noun
    the central area or commercial center of a town or city
    synonyms: downtown
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    Tin Pan Alley
    a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business
    type of:
    city district
    a district of a town or city
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