territory

territory
territory ter‧ri‧to‧ry [ˈtertri ǁ -tɔːri] noun territories PLURALFORM
1. [countable, uncountable] MARKETING an area which is the responsibility of a particular salesperson:

• His sales force's territory comprises Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

2. [countable, uncountable] land that is owned or controlled by a particular government, ruler, or military force:

• The parliament has jurisdiction over minerals mined on its territory.

• Until 1997 Hong Kong was a British territory.

3. [uncountable] an area of experience or knowledge:

• Statistical analysis is not the exclusive territory of a handful of specialists.

• The very competitive market is pushing firms into unfamiliar territory.

4. negative/​positive/​record etc territory FINANCE a situation in which financial investments fall or rise in value, or in which shares etc are higher in value or price than ever before:

• On the world's major exchanges, stocks ended in negative territory.

• A late spurt of buying pulled the Dow Jones into positive territory.

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territory UK US /ˈterɪtəri/ noun (plural territories)
► [C or U] an area of a town, country, etc. that someone has responsibility for in their job: »

A salesman's failure to achieve apparently realistic targets might be due to a change in the size of his territory.

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Europe has been very fertile territory for our products.

► [C or U] land that belongs to a particular country: »

The island is a territory of Australia.

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The four new oil contracts will amount to a half billion dollars worth of foreign investment in their territory.

► [C or U] an area of knowledge or activity: »

This is a territory that lies somewhere between mainstream sport and video games.

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Online selling was new territory for us.

► [U] FINANCE the general level of a price, amount, value, etc.: »

Crude oil prices are approaching unchartered territory.

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Persistent production problems helped drive oil prices further into record territory yesterday.

● sth comes/goes with the territory — Cf. sth goes with the territory
→ See also NEGATIVE TERRITORY(Cf. ↑negative territory), POSITIVE TERRITORY(Cf. ↑positive territory)

Financial and business terms. 2012.

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