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Etymology

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From territorial +‎ -ize.

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territorialize (third-person singular simple present territorializes, present participle territorializing, simple past and past participle territorialized)

  1. (transitive) To enlarge by extension of territory.
  2. (transitive) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
    • 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.

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