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bǎntú
noun #30,377

Meanings

  1. 1 territory; domain
  2. 2 (of a country) extent of national land
  3. 3 (figurative) a company's reach or footprint

Examples

Wǒguó bǎntú liáokuò.
Our country's territory is vast.
Zhè jiā gōngsī búduàn kuòdà shāngyè bǎntú.
This company keeps expanding its business footprint.

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history
Originally a compound of (registers of households) and (maps) — i.e. the rolls and maps a state used to track its land and people. By extension it came to mean 'all the land a polity controls', and now stretches metaphorically to 'a company's market territory'.

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