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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
territorial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a territorial dispute (=about which country land belongs to)
▪ The war started as the result of a territorial dispute.
Territorial Army, the
territorial integrity
▪ the territorial integrity of the country
territorial waters
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ Civil Service had most of the play throughout but were unable to convert their territorial advantage and possession into goals.
▪ The home side enjoyed territorial advantage in the second period but never looked like penetrating a well organised Malone defence.
▪ Although Liverpool held the territorial advantage for long spells, their elaborate patterns were woven to little effect.
ambition
▪ Belpan had little crime, no enemies, nothing worth stealing, and no territorial ambitions.
▪ Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas, hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there.
army
▪ They were mostly Londoners who had belonged to the territorial army before the war.
▪ He was especially noted for his hostility to the scheme to form a territorial army.
boundary
▪ This system prevailed over a colony whose territorial boundaries were not determined by the pre-colonial boundaries recognised by the indigenous populations.
▪ Those treaties accept the territorial boundaries of member states, yet the countries that sign them blithely ignore their undertakings.
claim
▪ The doctrine rested on the assumption that the country had no natural enemies and advanced no territorial claims on its neighbours.
▪ Both sides seem to be saying that they care more about security and sovereignty than they do about exclusivist territorial claims.
▪ Thus, a certain historical myopia is required to substantiate territorial claims.
▪ They declare that they have no territorial claims against anyone and that they will not make such claims in the future.
▪ Moreover, in 1914 the Empire had no urgent territorial claims and there was no direct threat to her territorial integrity.
▪ Co-operation with the South was obstructed by the Republic's territorial claim to the North.
▪ It seems highly unlikely to result from the subdivision of territorial claims.
dispute
▪ This was a formal combat to settle a territorial dispute.
▪ Most income came from the hiring out of paladins as mercenaries in territorial disputes.
▪ Keep just one male in a small tank as territorial disputes will otherwise occur.
expansion
▪ During this period of rapid territorial expansion the empire was almost continually at war.
▪ Victor Amadeus Il was therefore following an established maxim of dynastic policy when he resumed territorial expansion into Lombardy after 5690.
gain
▪ After the war Stalin did not wish to give up these territorial gains.
▪ Other territorial gains had been short-lived.
integrity
▪ They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
▪ Associated with the idea of sovereignty is the doctrine of territorial integrity.
▪ What mattered was not the territorial integrity of the empire, but the just rights of each member of the family.
▪ First, territorial integrity is a fuzzy concept when there is a dispute over boundaries.
▪ The maintenance of territorial integrity has become a joint enterprise.
▪ Disputes over legitimate rulers are a second underlying problem with claims that territorial integrity has been violated.
limit
▪ Continental use Your policy covers you while you are using your car in any country defined in the territorial limits.
▪ Cover includes transit by sea, air, or rail in or between the territorial limits.
▪ In extending the territorial limits of Canterbury's jurisdiction, he also made a notable advance.
▪ The country where the loss occurred is within the territorial limits covered under the policy. 5.
waters
▪ From 1995, the dumping of all forms of industrial waste will be prohibited outside of territorial waters.
▪ The United States wanted the treaty to apply only outside the 12-mile limit of territorial waters, but it was overruled.
▪ After a further two hour chase the Sea Rover was within our territorial waters where she was stopped and arrested by Seeker.
▪ The research ship Solo was seized when it crossed into territorial waters.
▪ Heaven forbid that she should wander into any of his territorial waters.
▪ Governors say they are afraid of a rebuff if they venture too near territorial waters.
▪ New Zealand legislation prohibiting nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from its territorial waters had been first enforced in February 1985.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A committee has been set up to deal with territorial disputes in the area.
▪ The country has suffered substantial territorial losses in this war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both Clownfish and Dwarf Angelfish are very territorial.
▪ But this ship was down in Vadinamaina territorial space, directly in my way.
▪ Civil Service had most of the play throughout but were unable to convert their territorial advantage and possession into goals.
▪ Cover includes transit by sea, air, or rail in or between the territorial limits.
▪ Even before the 1923 Grouping some companies were strongly territorial, and several had working arrangements with one another within one geographical area.
▪ It must be something to do with ancient territorial instincts.
▪ What was needed was some one outside and above the territorial nexus, requirements fulfilled only by the young king.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Territorial

Territorial \Ter`ri*to"ri*al\, a. [L. territorialis: cf. F. territorial.]

  1. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

  2. Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial.

  3. Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as, Territorial governments.

  4. (Zool.) exhibiting territoriality; -- of individual animals or species.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
territorial

1620s, "of or pertaining to a territory," from Late Latin territorialis, from territorium (see territory). In reference to British regiments, from 1881. In reference to an area defended by an animal, from 1920. Territorial waters is from 1841. Territorial army "British home defense" is from 1908. Territorial imperative "animal need to claim and defend territory" is from 1966.

Wiktionary
territorial

a. 1 Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory 2 (context often capitalized English) organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army. 3 (context biology English) Displaying territoriality. n. a non-professional member of a Territorial Army

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WordNet
territorial

  1. adj. of or relating to a territory; "the territorial government of the Virgin Islands"; "territorial claims made by a country"

  2. displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders; "territorial behavior"; "strongly territorial birds" [ant: nonterritorial]

  3. of or relating to the local vicinity; "territorial waters" [ant: extraterritorial]

territorial

  1. n. nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit

  2. a territorial military unit [syn: territorial reserve]

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Wikipedia
Territorial (animal)
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Usage examples of "territorial".

This, in modern language, means that the state is territorial, not personal, and that the citizen appertains to the state, not the state to the citizen.

Whence does it get its jurisdiction of navigable rivers, lakes, bays, and the seaboard within its territorial limits, as appertaining to its domain?

Gulf of Mexico or Straits of Florida was sustained, but construed as not applying to sponges taken from the territorial waters of a State.

For years past Miss Gardiner has been famous as a raiser of stock, equine and bovine, but unfortunately she has been most frequently before the public as the strong assertor of territorial rights.

He has worked assiduously to make Iraq strong so that it can dominate the region militarily, acquire new territorial prizes, and become the champion of the Arabs.

Mexican laws would control that question during the Territorial existence, and that these old Mexican laws excluded slavery.

This section of the Constitution does not prevent a territorial government, exercising powers delegated by Congress, from imposing a discriminatory license tax on nonresident fishermen operating within its waters.

Closely analogous to the territorial courts are extraterritorial and consular courts created in the exercise of the foreign relations power.

Moreover, governments throughout the world have become more assertive in exercising territorial jurisdiction over the hitherto ostensibly extraterritorial Net.

Their arid soil gave little scope to the territorial magnate, who was excluded from politics by the growing absolutism of the dynasty, and the government found it well to employ at a distance forces that might be turbulent at home.

Our objection to living in this Union, and therefore the difficulty of reconstructing it, is not your Personal Liberty bills, not the Territorial question, but that you utterly and wholly misapprehend the Form of Government.

The Territorial Police are trying out some reconditioned photojournalism robots and .

The error of the Government is not in recognizing the territorial laws as surviving secession but in counting a State that has seceded as still a State in the Union, with the right to be counted as one of the United States in amending the Constitution.

In that event, it would be requisite, if those States were to be retained at all as part of the Union, that they should be reconsigned to the Territorial condition, or otherwise governed still by the central authority.

But a treaty may also contain provisions which confer certain rights upon the citizens or subjects of one of the nations residing in the territorial limits of the other, which partake of the nature of municipal law, and which are capable of enforcement as between private parties in the courts of the country.