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., ...Russian territory.
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.
with supp
(=terrain)
Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory...
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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.
usu with supp
5 n-uncount Territory is land with a particular character.
with supp, usu adj N
...mountainous territory., ...a vast and uninhabited 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.
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come with the territory phrase V inflects
You can't expect not to have a debate; that's what comes with the territory in a democracy.