nonterritorial
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈtɛrɪˌtɔːriəl/
- Specialized
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no territorial
- Groups often adapt easily to changing environments, as they are nonterritorial and not bound to defend specific locations.
- nonterritorial federalism
- nonterritorial floaters
Examples
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While nonterritorial federalism has some distinct advantages in dealing with ethnic conflicts, it is nevertheless a complicated institutional arrangement and not necessarily efficient from the standpoint of resource allocation.
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Monitoring density changes of the territorial breeding population is straightforward, but it is difficult to estimate the fraction of nonterritorial "floaters," especially for nocturnal predators, leading to severe bias in estimating numerical responses of predators.
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Nonterritorial federalism involves the establishment of competing governments in the same territory, and individuals have the option of selecting which governments to belong to.
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Somon, consisting of 150-200 households, were nonterritorial administrative divisions maintained for military purposes.
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However, given the high costs associated with ethnic conflict in countries such as Rwanda and Burundi, nonterritorial federalism should be given serious consideration.
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During the 1800s, Pare society was organized into exogamous, nonterritorial patriclans.
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Both territorial (e.g., autonomous regions) and nonterritorial nonstate entities are increasingly effective and participatory in formal international decision processes.
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A possible solution to the ethnic rivalries in Rwanda and Burundi may lie in the nonterritorial federalism proposed by Gordon Tullock (1994).
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While the nonterritorial global order may be concerned with the environment, science, human rights, the arts, flows of information, and human society more generally, the nonterritorial economic sphere—what Ruggie characterizes as "transnational microeconomic links"—is of more immediate concern to the present discussion.
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While the nonterritorial global order may be concerned with the environment, science, human rights, the arts, flows of information, and human society more generally, the nonterritorial economic sphere—what Ruggie characterizes as "transnational microeconomic links"—is of more immediate concern to the present discussion.
Academic text (1997)
Antonyms
How Territorial
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Surface Forms
Morphology
nonterritorial = territorial (transparent) = non + territory + ial
The prefix 'non-' clearly negates the adjective 'territorial', making the meaning of 'nonterritorial' directly understandable as 'not territorial'.
Etymology
Nonterritorial begins with non- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from territorial, related to territory and terrain, which mean 'land'. So a nonterritorial animal or person does not defend or claim a certain area, which is why it means 'not showing territorial behavior'.