territory, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

territory (territories plural )

1 n-var Territory is land which is controlled by a particular country or ruler.
The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.

2 n-count A territory is a country or region that is controlled by another country.
He toured some of the disputed territories now under UN control.

3 n-uncount You can use territory to refer to an area of knowledge or experience. (=terrain)
Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory...
→ virgin territory
→ virgin

4 n-var An animal's territory is an area which it regards as its own and which it defends when other animals try to enter it.

5 n-uncount Territory is land with a particular character.
...mountainous territory.

6 If you say that something comes with the territory, you mean that you accept it as a natural result of the situation you are in.
♦ come with the territory phrase
You can't expect not to have a debate; that's what comes with the territory in a democracy.