Usually means: Control and exploitation by foreigners.
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  1. colonialism: Merriam-Webster
  2. colonialism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colonialism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colonialism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colonialism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colonialism, colonialism: Wordnik
  7. colonialism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. colonialism: Wiktionary
  9. colonialism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colonialism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colonialism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. colonialism: Dictionary.com
  13. Colonialism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. colonialism: Rhymezone
  15. colonialism: FreeDictionary.org
  16. colonialism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. colonialism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. colonialism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. colonialism: Legal dictionary

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  1. colonialism: Encyclopedia

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  3. colonialism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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  1. colonialism: Anthropological Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
noun:  (by extension, derogatory) Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
noun:  A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
noun:  Colonial life.

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