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to territorialize

to territorialize

9.8
To make an area with borders and control by a government
  • verb
  • /ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːriəlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : territorializar
  • In the meeting, they discussed how to territorialize responsibilities among departments.

Examples

  • The government plans to territorialize the region to improve administrative efficiency.

  • Here, the traditional production of knowledge is not organized in terms of what we might call free intellectual inquiry; rather, it is rigidly territorialized so that unless a person possesses requisite copyrights, entire domains of knowledge remain off-limits.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Herrera does not use Aristotle's taxonomic language. Rather than speciate words, he subtly territorializes them.

    Academic text (2002)

  • When territorializing and acquiring new responsibilities in terms of governance, without the formal achievement of the long-standing goals of the Palestinian movement, the legitimacy upon which the PLO had been based waned.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The new policy aims to territorialize the management of natural resources for better local governance.

Synonyms

to redistrict
vsto territorialize
4 6.8

Change the borders of voting districts to match population changes

organizes areas into formal administrative zones beyond only electoral boundary changes
to regionalize
vsto territorialize
  • Formal
1 6.8

To divide a country or organization into regions for local control

is more about creating formal administrative areas with clear governance roles
to remap
vsto territorialize
6.0

Change the boundaries of areas like voting or school districts

creates or arranges formal administrative areas rather than merely altering boundary lines
to sectionalize
vsto territorialize
8.0

To divide a country or city into areas for local government

focuses on forming formal administrative areas rather than simple sectional divisions
to repartition
vsto territorialize
  • Specialized
7.7

To divide something into parts again, for example a disk or land

means arranging areas into formal administrative zones, not only repeated division

How Territorialized

to annex
17 7.9
to territorialize
  • Specialized
9.8
partition
20 4.3
to demarcate
4 7.9

Surface Forms

territorialize infinitive
territorialized past
territorialized past participle
territorializing present participle
territorializes third person singular

Morphology

territorialize = territorial (transparent) = territory + al + ize

The verb is formed by applying the productive suffix '-ize' to the adjective 'territorial', so the meaning 'make X territorial' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Territorialize comes from territory, which comes from a word meaning 'land', and the ending -ize which means 'to make'. So, to territorialize something is to make it into a territory or to set borders and organize an area that way.