(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 ~ is under rebel control.
...Russian ~.
N-VAR
2.
A ~ 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 ~ 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 ~...
= terrain
virgin ~: see virgin
N-UNCOUNT: with supp
4.
An animal’s ~ 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 ~.
...a vast and uninhabited ~.
N-UNCOUNT: with supp, usu adj N
6.
If you say that something comes with the ~, 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 ~ in a democracy.
PHRASE: V inflects