Colonialism

Definitions

1. The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
   broadly, countable, derogatory, uncountable
3. A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
   countable, uncountable
4. Colonial life.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Though most of the cases here cover⟳ European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give⟳ the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.”

“It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw⟳ mixed-race people as a third race⟳.”

“Although the settlement seems so far to have⟳ made but slow progress⟳, there are many things which show⟳ that, to use⟳ a colonialism, "the place⟳ was going ahead."”

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