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UK
/ɛkspˈænʃənˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm, ɪkˈspæntʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspænʃəˌnɪzəm, ɪkˈspæntʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country
How To Use expansionism In A Sentence
- He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military expansionism.
- Soviet expansionism was considered a real threat.
- And it was Disraeli who grasped that 'jingoism' - a potent cocktail of popular patriotism and imperial expansionism - could win new voters among newly enfranchised groups such as artisans, skilled workers and shopkeepers: the Essex Men of the Victorian era. Home | Mail Online
- But the enemy will pay dearly later, on top of what it is paying at present for its reckless policies of greed and expansionism.
- Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism as depicted by the ‘orthodox’ economists are coming to pass.
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- Nazi revanchism and expansionism led to World War II, which resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructures and led to its division.
- The failure of strategy in electoral terms would give him a golden opportunity to identify his opponent with economic expansionism.
- By the 1890s the domestic frontier was exhausted, and expansionism took Americans into territories overseas.
- Foreign policy concerns in the 1930s centered on Soviet and German expansionism, which stimulated abortive efforts at Nordic defense cooperation.