Meanings
present singular third person territorializes · participle present territorializing · participle past territorialized · past territorialized · alternative territorialise
- transitiveTo reduce to the condition of a territory.
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.
1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
French territorialiser
- territorialiserto enlarge by extension of territory
Polish terytorializować, sterytorializować
- terytorializowaćto enlarge by extension of territory
- sterytorializowaćto enlarge by extension of territory
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territorialize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/territorialize
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