territory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.
Inflected forms:
form: territories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of three of Canada's federal entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
gloss: One of three of Australia's federal entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
gloss: A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lewis of France had his infancy attended by crafty and worldly men, who made extent of territory the most glorious instance of power, and mistook the acquisition of fame, for the spreading of honour.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.
gloss: A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A well-designed sales territory allows a salesperson to make best use of his time with present and potential customers and minimize travel time.
gloss: A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The establishment of a personal territory almost invariably precedes the sharing of a territory with a mate. For those who are unable to make a break from the parental home, this stage is almost never reached.
In general, when a group member wanted an item that was located in someone else's personal territory, they would ask that person to pass them the item.
Now that the days of handbag-carrying women have largely drawn to a close, houseworkers rarely have a clearly marked-out personal territory — although for some the dressing-table may be a non-transportable handbag equivalent.
gloss: A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The medical registration act eventually did form the foundation for medicine to be able to claim an ever increasing occupational territory and the domination of all other health disciplines.
gloss: An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a result, as the years have passed, my involvement with storytelling has expanded to the territory of compassionate action.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
I'd like to be friends, but on a new level. Can't you try to understand that? And here's a harder question" Can we achieve it? This is uncharted territory for both of us.
Derived words: absolute territory
British Antarctic Territory
British overseas territory
come with the territory
cyberterritory
dark territory
ethnoterritory
federal territory
foul territory
go with the territory
Louisiana Territory
New Territories
new territory
Northern Territories
Northern Territory
overseas territory
scheduled territory
subterritory
territorial
Territorial Army
territoriality
territorially
territorial waters
Territorian
territoried
territoriless
territory of Aysén
territory of Llanquihue
territory of Magallanes
the map is not the territory
trust territory
uncharted territory
union territory
unorganized territory
virgin territory
Yukon Territory
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: إِقْلِيم
roman: ʔiqlīm
lang: Asturian
word: territoriu
lang: Belarusian
word: тэрыто́рыя
roman: terytóryja
lang: Bulgarian
word: терито́рия
roman: teritórija
lang: Catalan
word: territori
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 特區 /特区
roman: dak⁶ keoi¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 特區 /特区
roman: tèqū
lang: Estonian
word: territoorium
lang: Finnish
word: alue
lang: Finnish
word: territorio
lang: French
word: territoire
lang: Galician
word: territorio
lang: German
word: Territorium
lang: Greek
word: έδαφος
roman: édafos
lang: Italian
word: territorio
lang: Japanese
word: 準州
roman: junshū
lang: Korean
word: 준주
roman: junju
lang: Occitan
word: territòri
lang: Polish
word: terytorium
lang: Portuguese
word: território
lang: Romanian
word: teritoriu
lang: Russian
word: террито́рия
roman: territórija
lang: Spanish
word: territorio
lang: Tagalog
word: lupain
lang: Ukrainian
word: терито́рія
roman: terytórija
lang: Urdu
word: عَمَل داری
roman: 'amal dārī