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colonialism

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11 lettersPronunciation /kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/Part of speech nounSorted aciillmnoosStarts with CEnds with M0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Control or exploitation of one territory or people by another power.

Word origin

From colonial + -ism.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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