territory meaning

EN[tɛrɪtɔri]
US

• NounPLterritoriesPREter-SUF-ory+-
  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
  2. (Canada) 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.
     1. 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.
  4. (ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
  5. (sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
     1. Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.
  6. A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
     1. A well-designed sales territory allows a salesperson to make best use of his time with present and potential customers and minimize travel time.
  7. A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
     1. 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.
  8. A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
     1. 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.
  9. An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
     1. As a result, as the years have passed, my involvement with storytelling has expanded to the territory of compassionate action.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • 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.
     • Additionally, patients with known infarction in the territory subtended by the target vessel and bifurcational stenoses were excluded.
     • Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • The company had engineered plenty of products, but manufacturing them was virgin territory.

Meaning of territory for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "territory" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Nouns
     • Countable nouns

Other Vocabulary

1. en meritory
2. en traitory
3. en termitary
4. fr territoire
5. en terribly