Territory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TERRITORY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• possessions in land; the whole, or a portion, of the land belonging to a state
• an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state
• an area defended by an animal or group of animals against others of the same sex or species
• an area defended by a team or player in a game or sport.
• an area in which one has certain rights or for which one has responsibility with regard to a particular type of activity
• land with a specified characteristic
• (especially in the US, Canada, or Australia) an organized division of a country that is not yet admitted to the full rights of a state.
• an area of knowledge, activity, or experience
• A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
• The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
• In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
• a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
• an area of knowledge or interest
• the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
• district
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority; an administrative subdivision of a country; a part of the United States not included within any state but organized with a separate legislature; a geographic area (as a colonial possession) dependent on an external government but having some degree of autonomy

Words related to TERRITORY

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How to use TERRITORY in a sentence

• The ivory has still to be disposed of, and it is not always safe to attempt to sell in the territory where the game has been shot.
• While these events occurred at Beneventum, Hannibal having laid waste the territory of Naples, moved his camp to Nola.
• Neither of them proposes to guarantee territory to a foreign nation in which the United States will not have a common interest with that nation.
• Mountain and valley, winter and summer, on the same territory.
• The slaves were brought into the Territory under the Constitution of the United States and are now the property of their masters.
• Certain danger was foretold from the extension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population.
• These hopes have proved fallacious and hostilities have been renewed throughout the whole of the Territory.
• The claims of Virginia and North Carolina to much of the territory had behind them the substantial element of armed possession.
• The Indian warfare in the Territory during these years deserves some study because it was typical of what occurred elsewhere.
• By means of this fort they intended to control all the territory enclosed between the rivers Mississippi, Yazoo, Chickasaw, and Mobile.
• If you are then satisfied that such is the fact, your next duty is to inquire by what law in force in this Territory are such practices punishable.
• They invaded the Persian territory in force, ravaged the country about Nisibis, and brought Aphraates to a pitched battle at Sisarbanon, near that city.
• It is difficult to say at what exact point it crossed the Persian frontier, but probably at least the first 700 miles of its course were through territory not Persian.
• It was deposited by the waters of several lakes within the territory, and could be collected round their edges at certain times of the year.
• The English territory was divided, on the contrary, into seven or eight separate kingdoms.
• Their territory stretched up into the lower slopes of the mountains, and was mostly in what is now Nepal, but it included territory now on the British side of the frontier.
• The chiefs of that movement took refuge within the Turkish territory.
• At that time the population of the young Territory was composed of emigrants from Northern and Southern States, those from the colder regions being in the majority.
• The news of the violation of Luxembourg and Belgian territory created less sensation than one might have expected.
• This was her claim, and when she was admitted into the United States, the United States did not define her territory.
• The Mexican War was the result of the colonization of Texan territory by American settlers and the desire of powerful interests to extend the area of land open to slavery.
• Indeed, he seems even to have recommended it in the first days of his interest in the subject of securing Indian Territory.
• It calls the national convention, fixes the time and place for holding it, and the representation to which each State and Territory is entitled.
• The summer of 1759 again found the Russian troops spread over the Prussian territory.
• Possibly in consequence of these events the Buddha avoided Kosala and the former Sakya territory.
• John Calhoun, president of the convention, had been appointed surveyor general of the Territory upon his recommendation.

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