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UK
/dɪkˌɒlənaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- the action of changing from colonial to independent status
How To Use decolonisation In A Sentence
- This may seem counter-intuitive, especially for those recalling decolonisation in the 1960s or sensing the growth of the boycott campaign. Undefined
- Decolonisation meant that, by and large, independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration, within their colonial frontiers.
- Few issues in Australian foreign policy have engaged as much public interest and speculation as the development of Australian policy towards the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor between 1974 and 1976. Australia and the Indonesian Incorporation of Portuguese Timor, 1974-1976
- According to Meades, Charles de Gaulle gave up Algeria because decolonisation was fashionable in America. TV review: Jonathan Meades on France; Bouncers
- To a right-minded English person, the decolonisation of place names seems reasonable: re-establishing an indigenous geography warped by the British Empire. Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat
- Decolonisation meant that, by and large, independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration, within their colonial frontiers.
- However, as an inevitable consequence of the development of the African revolution, as we have said, the liberation movements of southern Africa as well as the imperialists themselves are faced with the question, what kind of decolonisation shall this be! THE SPIRIT OF BANDUNG
- Madeleine Bunting over-simplifies and distorts Britain's predominantly successful, peaceful and honourable decolonisation record The endgames of our empire never quite played out – just look at Bahrain, 18 April. Letter: The truth about the end of empire
- It was wrong to resist revolutions in France and the US; wrong to go slow over abolishing the slave trade; wrong to champion the Corn Laws; wrong to embrace appeasement in the 1930s; wrong to contest the decolonisation of India. 'As an act of crass stupidity, this has rarely been equalled' | Will Hutton
- Significantly but fittingly, that period of partition and decolonisation occupies only the last two chapters for Keay ventures far beyond the traditional anglicised view of the country and its people.