territory has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Synonyms

district

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

The revenue from O_'_Banion 's Cicero territory went_up still higher , until the yield was more_than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago 's South and West_Sides .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

This may be because the Athabascan divergence began earlier ; or again because the Athabascan languages spread over a very_much larger territory ( including three wholly separated areas ) ; or both .

(Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)

He possessed the fighter pilot 's horror of bad_weather and instrument_flying , and he wondered , if the ceiling did drop , whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in_this unfamiliar territory .

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[ noun ] (geography) a territorial possession controlled by a ruling state

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United_States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red_River and that the United_States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England .

As the time drew_near for the drawing of the British American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818 , the company suspected that the Pembina_colony - its own post and Fort_Daer - was on American territory .

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

In answering these questions , we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before , and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded :

(Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)

As used in this Act , the term ' saline water ' includes sea_water , brackish water , and other mineralized or chemically charged water , and the term ' United_States ' extends to and includes the District_of_Columbia , the Commonwealth of Puerto_Rico , and the territories and possessions of the United_States .

3
[ noun ] an area of knowledge or interest

Examples

"his questions covered a lot of territory"

Used in print

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

Brooklyn_College is Marjorie_Morningstar territory , as much_as the_Bronx or Central_Park_West .

(Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)

There was no use wandering off into a territory of utter nightmare .

Related terms

area

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[ noun ] (geography) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

Synonyms

soil

Examples

"American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"

Related terms

geographical_area

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