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catchment area

noun as in drainage basin

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He was off to see to another of his father's interests—that "catchment area" far away up in the mountains.

The noblest and most-varied scenery in the north-west Himalaya is in the catchment area of the Jhelam.

The Sutle; has a course of 900 miles, and a large catchment area in the hills.

Here the “antecedent” theory will not suffice, for there is no sufficient catchment area north of the snows to support it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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