Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1874, American English, in reference to money policy; by 1884 as "one who advocates the expansion of the territory of his nation," from expansion + -ist. Related: Expansionism.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to expansionism. n. An advocate of expansionism.
WordNet
adj. of or involving or guided by expansionism
Usage examples of "expansionist".
Federation at present, but the largest are the Expansionist Party and the Liberals.
We will have foes enough from the Expansionist forces to keep us busy without having another one lurking at our backs.
Office of Finance, and numerous other dictates over the years, had ultimately left the legislature prisoner to the whims of Premier Sandra Nagy and her Expansionist cronies.
Or he had until a few months before, when the Expansionist party had finally achieved a slim majority in both houses, and begun to implement policies he opposed.
This was not limited to the opposition either, for he had noticed more than a few Expansionist Senators mentally squirming, their thoughts giving lie to the words issuing from their mouths.
Opposition to Expansionist strategies was dangerous, and more than a few Senators had had unexplained accidents or sudden illnesses in the last few years.
As for the Expansionist members, they drank in their imagined responses to such revolts like fine wine, getting tipsy on vintage visions of retaliation.
There were two worlds there which he would focus on, if he were some Expansionist strategist looking for trouble.
But Herm knew the tenor of the Expansionist mind well enough to realize that if you were not their ally, you were regarded as an enemy.
For several seconds nothing happened and his heart began to beat a bit faster, fearing that he was too late, and that events had rushed beyond his control, that he would be denied access and a goon squad of Expansionist bully boys would come knocking at the door.
These days, with the Expansionist restrictions, it sometimes took months to book passage, unless one had friends in the right places.
He calmed his conscience by remembering it would likely discomfort some Expansionist party loyalist, since these were the people permitted travel for the most part.
No one, including her Expansionist advisors, could predict the economic havoc they would wreak.
It had happened to more than one of his colleagues, enough of them to know that the reach of the Expansionist arm was nothing to be taken lightly.
Herm wondered if the Expansionist Party knew that there were traitors in their midst, plotting for power over the decadent Federation.