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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌtɛɹ.ɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌtɛɹ.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
• 韻: -ɔːɹiəl

形容詞

territorial (comparative more territorial, superlative most territorial)

1. Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
2. Of or relating to geography or territory.
   • 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points‎, pages 6–7:

     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.

   • 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 2:

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

3. (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
4. (biology) Displaying territoriality.

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名詞

territorial (plural territorials)

1. A non-professional member of a territorial army.
   • 2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 166:

     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.