territorialize
English
Alternative forms
- territorialise
Etymology
territorial + -ize
Verb
territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)
- (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
- (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
- 1991, Arjun Appadurai
- 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
Translations
to enlarge by extension of territory
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