ghetto vs territory

ghetto

noun
  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

territory

noun
  • A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work. 

  • An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience. 

  • A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges. 

  • A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights. 

  • The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control. 

  • One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory. 

  • A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district. 

  • An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics. 

  • A location or logical space which someone owns or controls. 

  • One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. 

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