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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--extraterritoriality This week's theme: words about diplomacy. extraterritoriality (ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee) noun Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, granted to foreign diplomats. [From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Henry McMaster also said he plans to argue that the extraterritoriality principle bars one state from passing laws that would affect people in other states." Monica Chen; State Attorney General Addresses York County Day; The Herald (Rock Hill, South Carolina); Mar 28, 2007. X-Bonus In death the many become one; in life the one becomes many. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

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