zone (some place) as (something)

zone (some place) as (something)

To mark the boundaries of a particular area for the express purpose of becoming or serving as something. The city council has zoned the patch of land as a residential area, barring any corporate development on the site. The government zoned the entire region as a federal park decades ago.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

zone something as something

to create a particular legally defined area within a governmental or other local area. They zoned this area as a shopping district. The city council zoned the vacant lot as a park.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • zone as
  • keep within
  • keep within (something or some place)
  • answer (one's) purpose
  • answer purpose
  • twilight zone
  • stitch on
  • to the purpose
  • zone (something) for (something)
  • zone for