Expansionism

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  • noun. A nation's practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A policy of (territorial) expansion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country
  • Word Usage
    "One of the biggest problems in bringing Israel to its senses, and/or making it accountable for its egregious expansionism, is that the US populace has been cowed into equating anti-zionism with anti-semitism."
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