extraterritorial.

Situated or operating outside a territory, or applying beyond the usual territorial limits of a jurisdiction.

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Words that belong together

• extraterritorial jurisdiction
• extraterritorial operations

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The treaty disputed the extent of extraterritorial jurisdiction.

The station’s extraterritorial operations complicated every claim of authority over it.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Relational or positional adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.