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Noun: extraterritoriality  'ek-stru,te-ri,to-ree'a-li-tee
  1. A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation
     
  2. The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory

Derived forms: extraterritorialities

Encyclopedia: Extraterritoriality