trust territories

noun

Definition of trust territoriesnext
plural of trust territory
as in monocracies

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  1. dependencies
  2. settlements
  3. provinces
  4. soil
  5. colonies
Noun
  • Helping to support organisations on publishing information on their impacts and dependencies in the short, medium and long term will be crucial in tracking progress.
    Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Beijing, meanwhile, has averted its gaze from Moscow’s belligerence in Africa while fostering new dependencies and saddling more countries with unsustainable debt.
    Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of dependencies
Noun
  • Under the settlements, Simmons did not admit any wrongdoing.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Judgment has been mixed, with some going forward to settlements.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of settlements
Noun
  • Today, the city remains the capital of Italy’s northern Veneto region, and ingredients arrive at the Rialto Market from its seven geographically varied provinces, including the snowy peaks of the Dolomites and the fertile soils fed by coastal marshes and shallow lagoons.
    Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Popular retreat destinations include Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan — provinces where the cost of living is a quarter of that in Shanghai.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of provinces
Noun
  • True lilies need well-draining soil and should be planted in an area that receives full sun or some light shade and within their Hardiness Zone.
    Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Unlike typical droughts, which can develop over extended periods, flash droughts emerge due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, intense sunlight, and strong winds, which speed up the drying of soils and vegetation.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of soil
Noun
  • Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics.
    David Karpf, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In the 1980s, the team was able to find the penguin colonies by using satellites to pinpoint the location of their poop.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of colonies
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