Panama Canal Zone
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- proper noun
- /ˈpænəˌmɑː kəˈnæl zoʊn/
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Zona del Canal de Panamá
- The Panama Canal Zone was a crucial region for U.S. military and economic interests in Central America.
Examples
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During the construction of the canal, many families lived in the Panama Canal Zone for easier access to work sites.
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Congress investigated John McCain's eligibility because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
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That language was very carefully drafted to make it clear that the United States government was not, in fact or in law, the sovereign in the old Panama Canal Zone.
Academic text (2000) -
Under the terms of the old Panama Canal Treaty, the United States government had rights to the Panama Canal Zone "as if it were the sovereign."
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This article explores the relationship among geography, environmental determinism, and early-twentieth-century development of the Panama Canal Zone.
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MAP: FIG. 1 -- Racial composition of towns in the Panama Canal Zone circa 1938.
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That important distinction paved the way for the 1977 Panama Canal Zone Treaties that call for the United States government to evacuate Panama at the end of this century.
Academic text (2000) -
To illustrate the intertwining, this article analyzes the relationships between the accepted premises of early-twentieth-century American geography and the development of the Panama Canal Zone, specifically its residential areas that were home to most of the zone's 30,000 inhabitants.
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John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, an area governed by the United States until 1999.
Synonyms
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A strip of land across Panama with the Panama Canal that the United States once ran
Surface Forms
Morphology
The name is compositionally built from 'Panama' (place) + 'canal' (waterway) + 'zone' (region), so a learner who knows those words will readily infer it denotes the region around the Panama Canal. While the specific historical detail that it was a former U.S.-governed territory is factual background beyond simple composition, the basic locational meaning is directly derivable and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Panama Canal Zone comes from a long strip of land across Panama that held the Panama Canal and was run by the United States. Because that land was treated as a separate zone, the name means the former area 'once governed by the United States'.