enemy territory

collocation in English

meaningsofenemyandterritory

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enemy
noun
uk
/ˈen.ə.mi/us
/ˈen.ə.mi/
a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm them or stop them from ...
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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 ofenemyandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sometimes, they stumbled intoenemyterritorybecause they did not know where the foe was, or even exactly where they themselves were.
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They have suffered grievously, they have fought magnificently, they have rescued their soil from the tyrant, and they are marching intoenemyterritory.
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I was once audacious enough to say that one mail-carrying aircraft was worth a squadron of bombers overenemyterritory.
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During that conflict, our aircraft flew overenemyterritoryat extremely low levels because of the experience and training gained in this country.
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Almost every major war in history has called at one time or another for the establishment of bases inenemyterritory.
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Who thought of putting an infantry brigade here, of carving up a city like this in the middle of potentiallyenemyterritory?
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But reconnaissance aircraft fly hundreds of miles intoenemyterritorycompletely unarmed.
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This is bound to be difficult overenemyterritory.
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The definition of "enemyterritory" is given there.
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Its aim is obviously to destroy nuclear silos onenemyterritoryand to avoid retaliation.
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The second best is to use them with the minimum destruction of anyenemyterritorywhich we want to occupy.
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Are the bodies to be concentrated in cemeteries inenemyterritory?
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The phrase "deep inenemyterritory" may exist somewhere on a word processor.
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The day may come when such good answers to the bomber are discovered that they really cannot venture overenemyterritory.
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That is a valid argument if we are dropping inenemyterritory.
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In connection with photographic intelligence are the squadrons now equipped with aircraft capable of penetrating deeply intoenemyterritory?
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They said that they had not come to sail inenemyterritoryor to transport troops in a civil war.
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The question of making a register of debts due from persons inenemyterritoryand in territory in enemy occupation is receiving careful consideration.
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They were adequately briefed before taking off to fly overenemyterritoryor even over their own territory.
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I think that the young aircrew men who are going to fly overenemyterritoryought to be told as little as possible.
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