territorial

CEFRB2

/ˌtɛɹ.ɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/

adjective

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After 1946 the British Government treated the four territorial divisions as a single unit.
Cats can be quite territorial creatures.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Tawny owls are highly territorial.
Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.

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Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page...
Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied territories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality ; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
1918, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points, pages 6–7
The territorials initiated about as many ground contacts (7,175) as the communists initiated against them (7,391) and more than those initiated by the army. As expected, the enemy attacked the territorials almost three times as often as it did the army.
2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 166

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Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory + -al.