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词汇 territoriality
释义 territoriality
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌter.ɪˌtɔː.riˈæl.ə.ti/ us /ˌter.əˌtɔːr.iˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the behaviour that a person or an animal uses to defend its territory(= an area that an animal or person tries to control or thinks belongs to them):
The males of the species exhibit territoriality, especially when other males come close to their homes.
These were issues of territoriality, and he just wasn't going to accept challenges to his authority.
the state of being a territory(= an area of land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to, or connected with a particular country or person):
Territoriality means that the laws of the country have force only within that country's territory.
Trans-border searches might violate the international principle of territoriality.
Territoriality was often the key to urban working-class sporting loyalties.
A wild animal will demonstrate territoriality, often by spraying its urine in the area that it is claiming.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: areas of land in general
berm
bioregion
circuit
corner
curtilage
demesne
dry land
ecoregion
enclosure
interlacustrine
intermountain
landbank
neutral zone
non-desert
patch
pocket
swale
swathe
sweep
transect

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Animal (non-human) behaviour
Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation

Related words


territory
territorial

Examples of territoriality


territoriality
The territoriality was strictly observed by the community members.
It is the present rather than that-which-is-to-come that seems to be the home territoriality of their existence.
I shall return to this idea of territoriality in the final section of this article.
Democracy operates in real spaces and political discourses reflect contested territorialities, from issues of national or ethnic identity to decentralisation.
Can we say something about original ethnic identities determined, inter alia, by mytho-history, language, territoriality and cultural traditions?
These include lighting conditions, room proportions, detailing and materials, axiality, circulation, and the delineation of the home through territoriality and boundaries.
Vertebrates whose high testosterone levels are associated with territoriality are likely to pick up fewer free-living parasites than do more wideranging non-territorial hosts.
However, the core of this new world was dominated by a concern for territoriality, community autonomy, and a strong sense of local belonging.
But his attempt to link this position with his point on territoriality needs further elucidation.
Remembering the country of their ^ birth: indigenous peoples and territoriality.
Perhaps male rarity has not provided sufficient selection pressure to generate territoriality in females.
The complex mapping of outcaste status and territoriality, in particular, is fascinating.
In this country, the territoriality principle and political subsidiarity have supported a discourse on multilingualism for the purpose of 'mutual understanding'.
This emphasis on territoriality involves more than just a geographical arrangement of cultural workers and the regionalism of cultural practices.
Generally, membership of one or another religious denomination entails a fierce (physical and spiritual) territoriality.
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