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Territorialize

Terˊri-to′ri-al-ize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Territorialized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Territorializing
.]
1.
To enlarge by extension of territory.
2.
To reduce to the condition of a territory.

Definition 2024


territorialize

territorialize

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Verb

territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)

  1. (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
  2. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
    • 1991, Arjun Appadurai
      The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.

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