trust territory

1. 1.

   a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations

   Synonymstrusteeship

   Broaderdistrict

Questions about trust territory

What does trust territory mean?

trust territory means "a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations".

What is another word for trust territory?

Close synonyms include trusteeship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trust territory a common word?

trust territory 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.