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virgin territoryBy extension, ideas or concepts or activities that have not yet been tried, explored or developed.Rate it:

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virgin territoryLand that has never been explored or developed.Rate it:

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come with the territoryTo be a common, and often inconvenient, accompaniment of an occupation, situation, or occurrence.Rate it:

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strike out into unknown territoryVenture forth into a new or unknown business, theme, vacation, personal relationship or program.Rate it:

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the map is not the territoryOur models of the world, and our sensations of the world, are not the true world.Rate it:

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take overTo annex a territory by conquest or invasion.Rate it:

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facts on the groundA euphemism, similar to fait accompli, used as an oblique way of saying that discussions over the possession of a given piece of territory has been rendered moot by the presence of military forces.Rate it:

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widow-makerSomething which or someone who takes the lives of men; a hazard that affects mostly men or is specific for some trade, occupied mostly by men.Rate it:

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(ex) finibus excedereto evacuate territory.Rate it:

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at itOccupied with a given activity; busy with something. [from 17th c.]Rate it:

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avoir affaireTo be occupied.Rate it:

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excursionem in hostium agros facereto make an inroad into hostile territory.Rate it:

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get stuck intoGet busy with; become occupied with; become immersed in.Rate it:

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haec gens pertinet usque ad Rhenumthe territory of this race extends as far as the Rhine.Rate it:

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here be dragonsA place/thing that has not yet been ventured; unfamiliar territoryRate it:

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holeIn semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.Rate it:

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in Sequanos proficiscito invade the territory of the Sequani.Rate it:

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is anyone sitting hereUsed to ask whether a seat near the interlocutor is currently occupied.Rate it:

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lose oneself into be deeply occupied, focused or absorbed in someone or somethingRate it:

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multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esseto be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims.Rate it:

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negotia agere, gerereto be occupied with business, busy.Rate it:

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on the clockWorking at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.Rate it:

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pissing warAn often vicious conflict in which combatants contend for dominance over certain territory.Rate it:

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point manIn combat, the soldier who takes point; the soldier who assumes the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation; the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.Rate it:

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territorial pissingIn animals, territorial marking, urinating on an area to identify territoryRate it:

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turf warA dispute over territory between rival gangs.Rate it:

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