Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a territory of; organize as a territory.
- transitive verb To extend by adding territory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enlarge or extend by addition of territory.
- To reduce to the state of a territory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To enlarge by extension of territory.
- transitive verb To reduce to the condition of a territory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
enlarge by extension ofterritory . - verb transitive To reduce to the condition of a territory.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb extend by adding territory
- verb organize as a territory
- verb place on a territorial basis
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another such move is to ex-territorialize the cumbersome native: he must be an émigré, an exile; as a matter of fact, I never moved to England, which I have the effrontery to merely visit.
A Cup of Coffee Tamas, Gaspar Miklos 1999
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To territorialize the whole South, and place a satrap over every parish and county of it -- saying no word for freedom -- would be a gentle and conciliating procedure compared with the most innocent utterance of a mere sentiment in behalf of emancipation and the elevation of the negro to the status of a man.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The next conference might wish to "mobilize and re-territorialize" itself across borders, making itself available in multiple host locations.
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