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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
territory
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
neutral territory/waters (=land or sea that is not controlled by any of the countries involved in a war)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dangerous
▪ Returning to the original metaphor of this chapter, the patient is taken into dangerous and unexplored territories of inner space.
▪ It is a scouting reconnaissance into un-known and potentially dangerous territory.
▪ Mr. Lawson moves on to what I regard as even more dangerous territory.
▪ Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory.
▪ A few big banks have ventured into more dangerous territory.
▪ Since then he has largely avoided commenting on religion, which his advisers consider dangerous territory.
familiar
▪ The social work was familiar territory.
▪ Camp Holloway at Pleiku was familiar territory.
▪ We open in familiar Grisham territory, in a low-security federal prison.
▪ Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory.
▪ I was now in more familiar territory.
▪ Now, we're all very familiar with the territory of trauma.
▪ They were travelling over familiar territory and life on the march had slipped into a routine.
▪ All this was familiar territory but as films became more ambitious so there emerged the possibility of fuller social statement.
hostile
▪ The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture.
▪ The North, on the other hand, would have to stretch its supply lines over vast areas of hostile territory.
▪ He was really on his own now, and in less than two minutes he would be flying over hostile territory.
▪ Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar, sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather.
▪ They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
neutral
▪ In this war, there's no neutral territory.
▪ We chatted noncommittally in the kitchen, neutral territory.
▪ That was why he had tried to reach Cantor by phone and arrange a meeting in some neutral territory.
▪ Beginning in the more neutral territory, I ask what leads her to seek incarceration for a kid.
new
▪ It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory.
▪ Now each book I write takes me deep into new territory.
▪ Displaced by High Speed Trains, much of their final year was remarkably spent on new territory including York-Liverpool runs.
▪ Encryption and digital signatures are techniques to expand the dynamics of trust into a new territory.
▪ A new territory lay here, in which she must live.
▪ Parasitic behavior itself is a new territory for organisms to make a living in.
▪ These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants.
▪ This, like most of Basingstoke itself, is new territory.
occupied
▪ By contrast opinion in the occupied territories concerning these other players was hardening rather than softening.
▪ In order to ensure the support of the nationalist parties Shamir increased settlement funding, including infrastructural development of the occupied territories.
▪ Autonomy was seen in the occupied territories as a denial of the demand for self-determination, not a step towards it.
▪ The next day clashes broke out in the occupied territories and Arab workers were prevented from entering Jerusalem.
overseas
▪ The number of such judicial appointments for overseas territories is considerable.
▪ In the General Staff's view, instabilities in Britain's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped.
▪ Finally, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council hears appeals from a very limited number of overseas territories.
▪ For example the administration of overseas territories has been accomplished by means of orders in council issued by virtue of the royal prerogative.
uncharted
▪ Gradually the performance builds into something extraordinary, a gallant voyage into uncharted territory.
▪ There are no road signs in uncharted territory, no footprints to follow in places where no one has ventured before.
▪ As many media workers would acknowledge, professional ethics in church-related media work are almost uncharted territory.
▪ I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes as the plane headed straight into very uncertain, very uncharted territory indeed.
▪ The present study is immensely rich in every way, and is an impressive foray into largely uncharted territory.
▪ The financial system may be about to enter uncharted territory.
▪ Prosecution lawyers face a daunting obstacle-race across uncharted territory.
▪ This gap between children's knowledge about what endangers their health and how they use this knowledge is largely uncharted territory.
unfamiliar
▪ This was their one mistake, this entering on unfamiliar territory - his territory.
▪ Every large event, personal or shared, takes us into unfamiliar territory.
virgin
▪ As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory.
▪ Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
▪ Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
▪ General Booth's Salvationist doctrine was a notable example, recommending mass emigration from the city slums to virgin colonial territories.
▪ I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
▪ Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.
▪ Very other, and very alien. Virgin territory.
■ NOUN
enemy
▪ They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory.
▪ It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
▪ The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory.
▪ Bosnia, it has been determined by some one, is considered enemy territory.
▪ She remains for him, even in modernity, enemy territory.
▪ The prize may be to seize the enemy territory, but that is a small reward for so dangerous a business.
▪ It was about laying waste enemy territory, about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.
▪ No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance.
home
▪ With these exceptions, troops lived in barracks, and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories.
▪ They now have rocks galore, probably the oldest rocks ever examined, sitting on their home territory.
▪ Unlike most forms of home territory, however, Ends are not colonized in opposition to authority.
▪ The second half of the course was held on home territory - in the Kemps Hotel, close to the oilfield.
▪ That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star, even if his appeal was mostly on home territory.
▪ Florence publishers have turned their attention almost exclusively to their home territory.
▪ They bring into focus the dilemmas facing anthropologists who do research in their home territory.
■ VERB
defend
▪ One of my pairs is actually reluctant to spawn if there is no-one from whom to defend their territory.
▪ Each was thus able to become a robust and self-aware entity, ready to defend its territory and its independence.
▪ Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory.
▪ A large mink can also travel further and defend a larger territory.
▪ For the rest of the year they wander their home ranges or defend their territories against all-comers.
▪ The third strategy involves intermediate-sized males behaving opportunistically: they call from potential egg-laying sites but do not defend territories.
▪ At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory.
enter
▪ Young Arsenal supporters sometimes disembark from trains south of the river and enter Chelsea territory across Wandsworth Bridge.
▪ Intermittent intervals of moonlight would mean not having to use flashlights, when he and Larsen entered the enemy's territory.
▪ The violence is the worst since the K-For peacekeepers entered the territory last June.
▪ To deny the reality of the divine love is to enter the dark territory where it can not be found.
▪ The financial system may be about to enter uncharted territory.
▪ For the first time the Soviet Government allowed foreign disaster relief organisations to enter its territory on a massive scale.
▪ It does not appear to be particularly aggressive but will chase off any fish that enter the territory surrounding its flowerpot.
establish
▪ Within this area, several males - smaller and less gaudy than the females - establish much smaller territories.
▪ This last piece of information was particularly important for establishing how much territory an increasing tiger population in any area would need.
▪ In larger tanks the fish will establish their own territories, and little more than the odd display will be seen.
▪ I have tried to establish my own territory in the attic, outside the country of my ancestors.
hold
▪ The second half of the course was held on home territory - in the Kemps Hotel, close to the oilfield.
▪ At night coyotes emerge to yip and yowl, raising their vocal flag proclaiming wilderness still holds territory deep within the city.
▪ Although they did not succeed in holding much territory, they proved their ability to penetrate deep into SOC-held territory.
▪ Two pairs hold territory on the island.
▪ Despite the military superiority of the government forces, the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south.
▪ Often, the winner must hold a territory against his ardent rivals.
invade
▪ In short, the comic poet is invading the territory of the tragic muse.
▪ The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
▪ She has, in some way, invaded my territory.
▪ A stoat had invaded the territory.
▪ A corollary is that these fans derive pleasurable excitement from going on away trips and invading the territories of opposing fans.
lose
▪ Davies first confirmed that intruders do usually lose contests over territories.
▪ Although Venice lost territory elsewhere, including the island of Crete, there was little change in Dalmatia.
▪ Government forces have made spectacular gains, only to lose back territory to lightning Tiger offensives.
mark
▪ The cities and even rural areas have been divided between these well-armed rival factions, who mark their territories with graffiti.
▪ There is no marking territory, no signal, no power thing.
occupy
▪ Foundations of Power: Empire Whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system.
▪ They munch native marine life, mow down food supplies and occupy territory, Carlton said.
▪ Meanwhile violence continued to leave scars across the occupied territories.
▪ The accident touched off a wave of rioting that spread throughout the occupied territories.
▪ The resulting competition probably causes the animals to occupy small but adequate territories which are vigorously defended by a monogamous pair.
▪ It is not only the breeding pair that occupies the territory around a nest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dangerous ground/territory
▪ You're on dangerous ground when you talk politics with Ed.
▪ Discussion had ventured into dangerous territory.
▪ Here we are on dangerous ground, though.
▪ I release my safety belt to hold you, dangerous ground, ground where my feet have wings of flame.
▪ It is a scouting reconnaissance into un-known and potentially dangerous territory.
▪ Mr. Lawson moves on to what I regard as even more dangerous territory.
▪ Probably because for Marc it was dangerous ground.
▪ Second, that any official who ignores them is on dangerous ground.
▪ They must also enter the dangerous ground of anticipating the techniques which might be available in the future.
on neutral ground/territory
poach on sb's territory/preserve
uncharted waters/territory/area etc
▪ And instead of heading off into uncharted waters, Shyamalan has positively invited comparisons with his previous opus.
▪ Any progress to be made in this almost uncharted area would be of great significance to communication and those who apply it.
▪ Clearly the 49ers are sailing in uncharted waters.
▪ Gradually the performance builds into something extraordinary, a gallant voyage into uncharted territory.
▪ I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes as the plane headed straight into very uncertain, very uncharted territory indeed.
▪ Not uncommonly, studies of this kind which relate to relatively uncharted areas raise more issues than they solve.
▪ Other career seekers are more interested in venturing into uncharted waters.
▪ There are no road signs in uncharted territory, no footprints to follow in places where no one has ventured before.
virgin territory
▪ As far as Labour is concerned, this is virgin territory.
▪ Helena some years earlier to map the stars of the southern hemisphere-virtually virgin territory on the landscape of the night.
▪ I mean, this was still virgin territory, there were no tube lines running to this part of the frontier.
▪ Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.
▪ The internet is no longer virgin territory.
▪ Working on what in effect was virgin territory for customs officers our crews produced fantastic results in the earlier days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a salesman's territory
▪ Chile is a country filled with unexplored territory.
▪ Colombian guerrillas had reportedly been operating in Venezuelan territory.
▪ Ecevit campaigned in May 1991 to have foreign troops removed from Turkish territory.
▪ His plane was shot down over enemy territory.
▪ Many birds will attack other birds that enter their territory.
▪ Miller had accidentally crossed into Iraqi territory and was arrested for spying.
▪ The antelope will control and defend its territory.
▪ The island of Guam is a US territory.
▪ The negotiations will be held on neutral territory.
▪ U.S. territories and possessions
▪ We crossed the river into enemy territory.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the world-famous San Diego Zoo, the animals will be sharing their territory with wandering herds of Republicans.
▪ But the Simpson case was territory like no other.
▪ In territory subjugated by the Union Army, slavery was protected and enforced, just as it had been before the war.
▪ It thinks global economic growth will come in this year at 4.7 %, well into boom territory.
▪ Often it makes sense to divide a territory into segments radiating outwards, with the salesperson's home being at the centre.
▪ The Frankish army secured most of the northern territories, and the Slavs kept their word to Charles.
▪ These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Territory

Territory \Ter"ri*to*ry\, n.; pl. Territories. [L. territorium, from terra the earth: cf. F. territoire. See Terrace.]

  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

    He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between.
    --Milton.

  2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.

  3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
territory

late 14c., "land under the jurisdiction of a town, state, etc.," probably from Latin territorium "land around a town, domain, district," from terra "earth, land" (see terrain) + -orium, suffix denoting place (see -ory). Sense of "any tract of land, district, region" is first attested c.1600. Specific U.S. sense of "organized self-governing region not yet a state" is from 1799. Of regions defended by animals from 1774.\n

\n"Since -torium is a productive suffix only after verbal stems, the rise of terri-torium is unexplained" [Michiel de Vaan, "Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages"]. An alternative theory, somewhat supported by the vowels of the original Latin word, suggests derivation from terrere "to frighten" (see terrible); thus territorium would mean "a place from which people are warned off."

Wiktionary
territory

n. 1 A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. 2 (context Canada English) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by Act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. 3 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.

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WordNet
territory

  1. n. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: district, territorial dominion, dominion]

  2. an area of knowledge or interest; "his questions covered a lot of territory"

  3. the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" [syn: soil]

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Territory (disambiguation)

A territory is a subdivision of a country having a legal status different from other regions of that country.

Territory may also refer to:

  • Sales territory
  • Territoriality (nonverbal communication), how people use space to communicate ownership/occupancy of areas and possessions
  • Subdivisions of a country having a legal status different from other regions of that country:
    • British Overseas Territories
    • Overseas territory (France)
    • Provinces and territories of Canada, administrative subdivisions of Canada with fewer powers of self-government than provinces
    • States and territories of Australia, administrative subdivisions of Australia
    • Territoire de Belfort, a French département that retains its historical name from 1871-1999
    • Territories of the United States (may be classified as incorporated organized territories, incorporated unorganized territories, unincorporated organized territories, and unincorporated unorganized territories)
    • Union territory, administrative subdivisions in India
    • Unorganized area (Canada)
Territory (animal)

In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against conspecifics (or, occasionally, animals of other species). Animals that defend territories in this way are referred to as territorial.

Territoriality is only shown by a minority of species. More commonly, an individual or a group of animals will have an area that it habitually uses but does not necessarily defend; this is called the home range. The home ranges of different groups of animals often overlap, or in the overlap areas, the groups will tend to avoid each other rather than seeking to expel each other. Within the home range there may be a core area that no other individual group uses, but, again, this is as a result of avoidance.

Territory (novel)

Territory is a fantasy western or Weird West novel by Emma Bull, published in 2007. It placed 4th in the 2008 Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category.

Territory (song)

"Territory" is Sepultura's sixth official single, and the last of three to be taken from the album Chaos A.D., released in 1993. Like most of the band's singles, the song is one of the band's best-known songs and remains a concert staple to this day.

The song also appears in live form on the band's releases Under a Pale Grey Sky and Live in São Paulo (twice on the DVD version of the latter. It also appeared as a live B-Side to the " Roots Bloody Roots" single, but was not included on the rarities compilation Blood-Rooted, which saw other recordings from that concert included.

Territory (Two Hours Traffic album)

Territory is the third full-length studio album by Canadian indie rock band Two Hours Traffic, and the follow-up to their Polaris Prize-nominated Little Jabs. It was released on September 8, 2009 on Bumstead Records. The album was produced by Joel Plaskett. The band toured Canada in September and October 2009 in support of the album.

Territory (Ronnie Montrose album)

Territory is Ronnie Montrose's second album of instrumental jazz fusion music although there are vocals on "Love You To" and "I Spy".

Territory

A territory is a term for types of administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a state. In most countries' terminology, such as the United States and Nigeria, it refers to an organized division of an area that is under control of a country but not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of that country of equal status to other political units such as states or provinces. In international politics, the term is used particularly in reference to a non- sovereign geographic area which has come under the authority of another government; which has not been granted the powers of self-government normally devolved to secondary territorial divisions; or both.

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Usage examples of "territory".

Not until 1869, however, when Wyoming, as a territory, accorded women suffrage on terms of equality with men and continued to grant such privileges after its admission as a State in 1890, did these advocates register a notable victory.

Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.

During this precarious state of the supreme power, a difference would immediately be experienced between those portions of territory which were subjected to the feudal tenures, and those which were possessed by an allodial or free title.

The prayers of the Goths were granted, and their service was accepted by the Imperial court: and orders were immediately despatched to the civil and military governors of the Thracian diocese, to make the necessary preparations for the passage and subsistence of a great people, till a proper and sufficient territory could be allotted for their future residence.

Each tour extended over new territory, including localities where Anarchism had never before received a hearing.

South stretched the wide expanse of the valley, with the broad Turnbull flashing in the midst and sweeping away to the west in lazy curves quite different from the arrowy little stream which he knew near the cave and through his own territory.

In such a case the debt follows the territory, and the duty of assessing and collecting taxes to satisfy it devolves upon the succeeding corporations and their officers.

Of this vast territory, which is composed of three provinces, Benguela, Congo, and Angola, there was but little known then except the coast.

Trade was slow because most of the territory had been beavered out and the Company did not enjoy the monopoly there it had elsewhere.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

Nor did Whitey Sorkin: a lot of his bettors were old and steady customers, and lines of credit went with the territory.

The region is divided into territories, and Brount runs this territory with Shantytown as his base of operations.

He became fully aware of the political ploys, the secret deals and dirty tricks, Brount employed to solidify his control over the territory.

The Missouri Compromise, made in 1820 upon the occasion of the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave State, whereby, in consideration of such admission, slavery was forever excluded from the Northwest Territory, was ruthlessly repealed in 1854, by a Congress elected in the interests of the slave power, the intent being to force slavery into that vast Territory which had so long been dedicated to freedom.

The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition.