Territorialize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To enlarge by extension of territory. transitive
  2. 2
    extend by adding territory wordnet
  3. 3
    To reduce to the condition of a territory. transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    place on a territorial basis wordnet
  5. 5
    organize as a territory wordnet

Synonyms

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territorialise

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"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."

Etymology

From territorial + -ize.

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