school zone

English

Noun

school zone (plural school zones)

  1. Streets near or surrounding a school that have reduced speed limits during certain hours of the day for the protection of young pedestrians and cyclists.
    • 2019, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, No Safe Spaces‎[1]:
      Driving 45 in a school zone is not the same thing as vehicular homicide.
  2. A designated geographic area that determines which school children will attend based on their home address.

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