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UK
/ɛkspˈænʃənˌɪzəm/
]
[ US /ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm, ɪkˈspæntʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm, ɪkˈspæntʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country
How To Use expansionism In A Sentence
- He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military expansionism.
- Expansionism was advocated by many British politicians in the late 19 th century.
- These states are more comfortable with a distant hegemon with an honorable history of restraint than a local hegemon with a persistent history of expansionism.
- We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery. Editorial
- Exploration, however, depended upon private patronage despite theorists imploring that maritime expansionism should be state-sponsored.
- Expansionism was advocated by many British politicians in the late 19 th century.
- This is Spaniard colonial in America final expansionism action.
- Expansionism was advocated by many British politicians in the late 19 th century.
- More than Vietnam, it was the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 that taught Kennedy vital lessons about the limitations and dangers of expansionism and brinkmanship in a thermonuclear age.
- The Gadsden Purchase represents a point of intersection between mid-nineteenth-century commercial expansionism and the debate over slavery.