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territorial
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[ adjective ] of or relating to a territory
Examples "the territorial government of the Virgin Islands" "territorial claims made by a country" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)For three years , since the liquor territorial conference , Torrio had , with his elastic patience , and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business , tolerated O_'_Banion 's impudent double-crossing . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)These differences in_turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built_up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based_on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military,work) nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit
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[ adjective ] (biology) displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders
Examples "territorial behavior" "strongly territorial birds" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or relating to the local vicinity
Examples "territorial waters" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military) a territorial military unit
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