Pronounced: sklaf, verb
Notes: Many people may know this word; I didn’t — do you?
Yesterday’s word
The word extrality is “exemption from local laws: the privilege of living in a foreign country, but subject only to the home country’s jurisdiction”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1920s
Background / Comments
Our word is a contraction of the word extraterritoriality, which came from the Latin word extra- (outside) and territorium (land around a town).
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