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The use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
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colonialism
Alternative clues for the word colonialism
Word definitions for colonialism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colonialism \Co*lo"ni*al*ism\, n. The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial. The last tie of colonialism which bound us to the mother country is broken. --Brander Matthews. A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The colonial domination policy. A colonial system. 2 A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit. 3 Colonial life.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, "ways or speech of colonial persons," from colonial + -ism . Meaning "the system of colonial rule" is from 1886.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism . ▪ But women beyond the West were also waging another kind of battle: against colonialism and for independence. ▪ Equally debatable ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Colonialism is the establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory, and the subsequent maintenance, expansion, and exploitation of that colony. The term is also used to describe a set of unequal relationships between ...
Usage examples of colonialism.
Postmodernist thought challenges precisely this binary logic of modernity and in this respect provides important resources for those who are struggling to challenge modern discourses of patriarchy, colonialism, and racism.
American candidate, a valid Vietnamese nationalist whose Francophobia absolved him of any taint of colonialism and whose approval by Cardinal Spellman certified his anti-Communism.
He raised the twin spectres of racism and colonialism, he threatened certain vaguely-defined actions if the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant were not returned immediately, and he demanded that Kenyans boycott all British products.
The more intellectual millennialists had at least produced some useful, if slanted, material: careful studies of parallels with intercultural contact in Earth’s past, ranging from the dreadful fall-out of Western colonialism through to the essentially benevolent impact of the transmission of learning from Arabian and ancient Greek cultures to the medieval West.
The second story, Eclipse, parallels somewhat both the American Revolution and the break-up of colonialism taking place on this planet today, for it is concerned with the colonies on Mars and on Venus becoming self-sufficient and politically mature and breaking away from Mother Earth, followed by almost complete cessation of interplanetary travel.
By then, the Australian and Dutch colonial governments were no longer willing to open up lands for white settlement by killing native people in large numbers or driving them off their lands, as had happened during earlier centuries of European colonialism.