Usually means: Establish permanent settlement in new area.
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  1. colonise: Merriam-Webster
  2. colonise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. colonise: Vocabulary.com
  4. Colonise, colonise: Wordnik
  5. colonise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. colonise: Wiktionary
  7. colonise: Dictionary.com
  8. colonise: Rhymezone
  9. colonise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. colonise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. colonise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colonise: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.

Similar:
colonize, colonising, recolonise, recolonize, invade, colonisation, industrialise, terraform, repopulate, coloniser, more...

Opposite:
decolonize, liberate, emancipate

Types:
invade, settle, conquer, occupy, annex, more...

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Similar:
colonize, colonising, recolonise, recolonize, invade, colonisation, industrialise, terraform, repopulate, coloniser, more...

Opposite:
decolonize, liberate, emancipate

Types:
invade, settle, conquer, occupy, annex, more...



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