territorial waters

What does territorial waters mean?

territorial waters means "the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction".

What is the opposite of territorial waters?

The recorded antonyms are high sea, international waters.

Is territorial waters a common word?

territorial waters is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for territorial waters come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.