Search Details
Word: overseas territory
(lookup usage)
(lookup stats)
Meaning:
Noun:
- A country or smaller territory which politically is either an integral part of - or in some dependent (e.g. colonial) relationship with another state, but is geographically separated from that 'mother state' by the sea, without bordering it or its coastal waters
- legal A more specific status legally defined under a constitution for one or more of the above territories
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »