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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