Beat - Area of Territory

Area of Territory

  • Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
  • Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist
  • Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
  • Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional subunit of a Forest range

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Famous quotes containing the words area and/or territory:

    Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
    Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)

    Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)