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单词 territorial imperative
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Definition of territorial imperative in English:

territorial imperative

noun
Zoology Psychology
  • The need to claim and defend a territory.

    the way people use space, including their seating arrangements and conversational distance, reflects territorial imperative
    count noun variables of ecological space influence postulations of a territorial imperative
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, because of tribal rules, jurisdictional disputes, and territorial imperatives, each chief was reluctant to become involved in the struggle.
    • How doctors decorate their consulting rooms can be a matter of style, personal preference, territorial imperatives, or culture.
    • According to Milton Henry who talked about ‘territorial imperative’, ‘the urge for territory seems to be an innate, deeply rooted part of the nature of all living species of animals.’
    • Importantly, this was not by territorial acquisition, but by the creation of a new political superstructure whose very purpose was to eliminate the crisis originally created by the territorial imperative.
 
 

Definition of territorial imperative in US English:

territorial imperative

noun
Psychology Zoology
  • usually in singular The need to claim and defend a territory.

    the way people use space, including their seating arrangements and conversational distance, reflects territorial imperative
    count noun variables of ecological space influence postulations of a territorial imperative
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How doctors decorate their consulting rooms can be a matter of style, personal preference, territorial imperatives, or culture.
    • However, because of tribal rules, jurisdictional disputes, and territorial imperatives, each chief was reluctant to become involved in the struggle.
    • According to Milton Henry who talked about ‘territorial imperative’, ‘the urge for territory seems to be an innate, deeply rooted part of the nature of all living species of animals.’
    • Importantly, this was not by territorial acquisition, but by the creation of a new political superstructure whose very purpose was to eliminate the crisis originally created by the territorial imperative.
 
 
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