What does "territorial waters" mean?

A country's inland lakes and waterways as well as the portion of its coastal oceans, seas, or other adjoining bodies of water considered to fall within the political boundaries and legal jurisdiction of that country.

Territorial waters

Q: What is a synonym for "territorial waters"?

Common synonyms include: coastal waters, defensive, geographic, internal waters, jurisdictional, legal.

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Noun

1
A country's inland lakes and waterways as well as the portion of its coastal oceans, seas, or other adjoining bodies of water considered to fall within the political boundaries and legal jurisdiction of that country. plural, plural-only
"Her Majesty's Government do not interpret these expressions in any sense derogatory to the sovereign authority of Great Britain in the territorial waters of Newfoundland."
2
the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction wordnet

Synonyms

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coastal waters defensive geographic internal waters jurisdictional legal

Antonyms

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cooperative extraterritorial foreign water high seas

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"Her Majesty's Government do not interpret these expressions in any sense derogatory to the sovereign authority of Great Britain in the territorial waters of Newfoundland."

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