extraterritoriality

English

Etymology

extraterritorial +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.stɹəˌtɛ.ɹɪˌtɔː.ɹɪˈæl.ɪ.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.stɹəˌtɛ.ɹɪˌtɔ.ɹiˈæl.ɪ.ɾi/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

extraterritoriality (usually uncountable, plural extraterritorialities)

1. (law, uncountable) Immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
   • 1993, Phillip I. Blumberg, The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law: The Search for a New Corporate Personality, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 187:

     Although both home country and host country extraterritoriality involve the extension of national law over foreign corporations, the two differ sharply in the nature of application.

2. (countable) A territory or space that is under the power of a certain area but not defined by its norms.

Synonyms

• diplomatic immunity
• exterritoriality

Translations

immunity from the local laws of a certain area

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 治外法權／治外法权 (zh) (zhìwàifǎquán)

• French: extraterritorialité (fr) f
• Galician: extraterritorialidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ექსტერიტორიულობა (eksṭeriṭoriuloba)
• Greek: ετεροδικία (el) f (eterodikía)
• Hungarian: területenkívüliség (hu)
• Italian: extraterritorialità f
• Japanese: 治外法権 (ja) (chigaihōken)
• Polish: eksterytorialność (pl) f
• Portuguese: extraterritorialidade f
• Romanian: extrateritorialitate (ro) f
• Russian: экстерриториальность (ru) f (eksterritorialʹnostʹ)