ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Territorialize

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Territorialize is a verb meaning (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.

Meaning

(transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include territorialise, exterritorialize, extraterritorialize, reterritorialize, continentalize, extend.

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