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overseas_territory
overseas territory
English
Noun
overseas territory (plural overseas territories)
- A country or smaller territory which politically is either an integral part of - or in some dependent (e.g. colonial) relationship with another state, but is geographically separated from that 'mother state' by the sea, without bordering it or its coastal waters
- (law) A more specific status legally defined under a constitution for one or more of the above territories