territorialize

English

Alternative forms

• territorialise

Etymology

From territorial +‎ -ize.

Verb

territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)

1. (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
2. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
   • 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.

Translations

to enlarge by extension of territory

• French: territorialiser (fr)