tract of territory
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftractandterritory
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tract
noun[C]
uk/trækt/us/trækt/
a short piece of writing, especially on a religious or political subject, that is intended to influence other ...
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territory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition oftractandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Atractofterritoryis not something abstract or intangible.
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It tells us of a vasttractofterritoryfrom which these raw resources can be taken.
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They know that one of the most difficult problems in the world is where you get two separate communities inhabiting onetractofterritory.
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That is the population of that vasttractofterritory, with immense potentialities and every kind of possible development.
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That can transform the industrial life of a greattractofterritory.
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It is a very largetractofterritory, it is an undeveloped territory—not very developed in roads, hardly developed at all in railways.
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Large tracts of territory, some of the first strategic importance, were captured.
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This is an important matter because without aerial inspection control cannot be effective, particularly where there are huge tracts of territory to be inspected.
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We have given them ridiculous constituencies that often range over vast tracts of territory, constituencies that have no acknowledged unity.
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Overseas there are vast tracts of territory which are, as yet, unexploited owing to lack of man power, but which are capable of development to an almost unlimited extent.
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