transcription, транскрипция: [ terətri, AM -tɔ:ri ]
( territories)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Territory is land which is controlled by a particular country or ruler.
The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
...Russian territory.
N-VAR
2.
A territory is a country or region that is controlled by another country.
He toured some of the disputed territories now under UN control.
N-COUNT
3.
You can use territory to refer to an area of knowledge or experience.
Following the futuristic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s seventh novel, Cat’s Eye, returns to more familiar territory...
= terrain
virgin territory: see virgin
N-UNCOUNT : with supp
4.
An animal’s territory is an area which it regards as its own and which it defends when other animals try to enter it.
N-VAR : usu with supp
5.
Territory is land with a particular character.
...mountainous territory.
...a vast and uninhabited territory.
N-UNCOUNT : with supp , usu adj N
6.
If you say that something comes with the territory , you mean that you accept it as a natural result of the situation you are in.
You can’t expect not to have a debate; that’s what comes with the territory in a democracy.
PHRASE : V inflects