单词 | exclave |
释义 | exclaven. A portion of territory separated from the country to which it politically belongs and entirely surrounded by alien dominions: seen from the viewpoint of the ‘home’ country (as opposed to an enclave, the same portion of territory as viewed by the surrounding dominions). Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > territory governed by a ruler or state > surrounded by foreign dominions enclavure1851 enclave1868 exclave1888 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 331/2 Besides these, the term Thuringia..includes the various ‘exclaves’ of Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia which lie embedded among them. 1939 S. Van Valkenburg Elem. Pol. Geogr. vii. 111 Small disconnected sections in a foreign territory are enclaves of the surrounding area and exclaves of the country to which they politically belong. 1951 E. W. Zimmermann World Resources (ed. 2) 129 An economic exclave may be defined as a splinter of one economy lying inside another economy. 1956 N. Pevsner Englishness of Eng. Art 179 New Towns, which are towns and not garden suburbs with odd shopping centres as urban exclaves and a trading estate along the railway. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888 |
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