territory

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♦♦ ter|ri|tory /t'erətri, AM -tɔːri/ (territories)
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] with supp
You can use territory to refer to an area of knowledge or experience.
Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory...
virgin territory: see virgin
= terrain
4 [N-VAR] usu with supp
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] with supp, usu adj N
Territory is land with a particular character.
...mountainous territory.
...a vast and uninhabited territory.
6 [PHRASE] V inflects
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.
You can't expect not to have a debate; that's what comes with the territory in a democracy.

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