noun. The policy or practice of a wealthy or powerful nation's maintaining or extending its control over other countries, especially in establishing settlements or exploiting resources.

noun. A practice, idiom, or phrase peculiar to a colony.

noun. Collectively, the characteristics of colonial life.

noun. The colonial principle or system: as, British colonialism works well.

noun. The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

noun. A custom, idea, feature of government, or the like, characteristic of a colony.

noun. The colonial system of political government or extension of territory, by which one nation exerts political control over another nation, territory, or people, maintaining the colony in a state of dependence, its inhabitants not having the same full rights as those of the colonial power. The controlling power is typically extended thus by military force or the threat of force.

noun. the political or ideological system of beliefs advocating or justifying colonial control of one nation over another nation, territory, or people.

noun. The colonial domination policy pursued by the powers of Europe, from the second half of the XIX century to the years following World War II. A colonial system.

noun. A colonial linguistic expression. Term or expression of colonial origin entered in a language.

noun. Colonial life.

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

"Others use the term colonialism to describe dependencies that are directly governed by a foreign nation and contrast this with imperialism, which involves indirect forms of domination."

exploitation  using  victimisation  victimization  

neocolonialism  

Nazism  ageism  anti-semitism  apartheid  capitalism  

Eisenhower Doctrine  Monroe Doctrine  Nixon Doctrine  Truman Doctrine  absolute monarchy