Imperialist Meaning

/ɪmˈpɪəɹiəlɪst/
C1

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adjOf, or relating to imperialism.

nounAn advocate of imperialism.

"You, Sir, are an imperialist!" "And you, Sir, are a troll."
The Turkish war of independence against European imperialist powers lasted from 1919 to 1923.
The United States, Russia, and China are imperialist powers.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ country aimed to expand its territory by invading its smaller neighbors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The revolutionary speaker condemned the ____ ambitions of the powerful neighboring nation.

From imperial + -ist, after French impérialiste.

"On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'." — 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:
""The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency." — 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ country aimed to expand its territory by invading its smaller neighbors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The revolutionary speaker condemned the ____ ambitions of the powerful neighboring nation.

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