| American Samoa |
an unincorporated U.S. territory consisting of seven South Pacific islands north of Tonga. (Cf. Samoa, Western Samoa.) |
| annex |
to add (territory) to an existing nation or city. [1/4 definitions] |
| annexation |
the act of taking and adding (territory) to one's own territory. |
| archduchy |
the territory controlled by an archduke or archduchess. |
| beat |
one's regular professional territory or subject matter. [1/15 definitions] |
| center fielder |
in baseball, the player who is stationed in center field when the other team is batting and whose primary function is to defend that territory. |
| cession |
the act of formally giving up or signing over, as a territory; ceding. [1/2 definitions] |
| city-state |
a self-governing state made up of a city and its surrounding territory. |
| colonial |
of or pertaining to a territory ruled by a distant country; of or pertaining to a colony or colonies. [1/5 definitions] |
| colonize |
to establish a settlement on (a distant territory) and begin to rule. [1/3 definitions] |
| colony |
a territory governed by a distant country, often occupied by numbers of citizens of that country. [1/2 definitions] |
| commando |
a small, specially trained military unit used for surprise assaults on enemy-held territory. [1/2 definitions] |
| condominium |
joint sovereignty by two or more nations over a territory, or a territory sogoverned. [1/2 definitions] |
| conquest |
something gained by conquering, such as territory, riches, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| contraband |
during the American Civil War, a slave under the Confederacy who fled to or was taken into territory occupied by Union forces. Such fugitive slaves were, in a sense, free, in that they were not returned by the Union to Confederate slave owners. Instead, however, they were declared captured enemy war materials, or "contraband of war." Thousands of contrabands worked as paid, though exploited, laborers for the Union. [1/5 definitions] |
| demesne |
a district, region, territory, or domain. [1/5 definitions] |
| dependency |
something dependent or under the authority of another, esp. a colony or territory. [1/2 definitions] |
| district |
a division of territory made for the purpose of administration or management. [1/3 definitions] |
| domain |
territory owned or controlled by a single ruler or government; realm. [1/5 definitions] |
| dominion |
the territory that a single ruler or government controls; realm; domain. [1/3 definitions] |
| door-to-door |
conducted or visiting at each home in a given area, such as a political district or sales territory. [1/2 definitions] |