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territorialize

verb
ter路​ri路​to路​ri路​al路​ize | \ 藢ter-蓹-藞t券r-膿-蓹-藢l墨z How to pronounce territorialize (audio) \
territorialized; territorializing

Definition of territorialize

transitive verb

: to organize on a territorial basis
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Other Words from territorialize

territorialization \ 藢ter-​蓹-​藢t券r-​膿-​蓹-​l蓹-​藞z膩-​sh蓹n How to pronounce territorialization (audio) \ noun

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 Sumner and Stevens鈥檚 plan to territorialize the Confederate states might have kept any reinvigorated Southern elite from storming back into Congress and joining forces with their one-time Northern Democratic allies. — Allen C. Guelzo, Time, "Reconstruction Didn't Fail. It Was Overthrown," 30 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of territorialize

1818, in the meaning defined above

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