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Colonialism   /kəlˈoʊniəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Colonialism

noun
1.
Exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country.



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"Colonialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... time, if you will recall, there was a great deal of agitation against colonialism—there had been for a long time, as a matter of fact. That agitation was directed against certain industrialist robber-baron nations who had enslaved the populace of parts of Asia and Africa solely to produce wealth, and not for the benefit of the ...
— Anchorite • Randall Garrett
... to British colonialism under Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU led to independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Colonialism" :   exploitation, victimisation, using, colonialist, victimization


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