Noun: territory
| Singular | territory |
| Plural | territories |
Sample Sentences
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Lewis of France had his infancy attended by crafty and worldly men, who made extent of territory the most glorious instance of power, and mistook the acquisition of fame, for the spreading of honour. [1711 August 9, “The Love of Glory”, in The Spectator, volume 3:]
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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. [2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
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Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces. [2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:]
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A well-designed sales territory allows a salesperson to make best use of his time with present and potential customers and minimize travel time. [1993, Robert D. Hisrich, Ralph W. Jackson, Selling and Sales Management, →ISBN, page 160:]
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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. [1979, Raymond Lifchez, Barbara Winslow, Design for Independent Living, →ISBN, page 97:]
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In general, when a group member wanted an item that was located in someone else's personal territory, they would ask that person to pass them the item. [2010, Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays, →ISBN, page 371:]
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Now that the days of handbag-carrying women have largely drawn to a close, houseworkers rarely have a clearly marked-out personal territory — although for some the dressing-table may be a non-transportable handbag equivalent. [2014, Stevi Jackson, Shaun Moores, The Politics of Domestic Consumption, →ISBN, page 305:]
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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. [2008, Kathleen Fahy, Maralyn Foureur, Carolyn Hastie, Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship, →ISBN, page 7:]
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As a result, as the years have passed, my involvement with storytelling has expanded to the territory of compassionate action. [2011, Laura Simms, Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling, →ISBN, page xv:]
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12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
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The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
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I'd like to be friends, but on a new level. Can't you try to understand that? And here's a harder question" Can we achieve it? This is uncharted territory for both of us. [2013, Hadley Hoover, Uncharted Territory, →ISBN, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like territory
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium. See: Middle English Nouns '
territorie', Middle English Nouns '
territorie', Latin Nouns '
territōrium'.
Verbs referencing "territory"
Finnish Nouns
territorio.