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The tendency or policy of annexing (appropriating) additional territories.
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The adoption of common policies amongst the countries of a particular continent, especially continental Europe.
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(chiefly depreciative) The imposition of a dominant nation's culture onto a nondominant nation, often through the export of cultural products such as film and music.
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The devolution of a city into its formerly subordinate constituents, the opposite of synoecism.
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The belief that human beings should be free to dominate and exploit nature, including plants and animals.
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The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility or staff within an organisation for the purpose of self-aggrandisement.
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The tendency to turn issues into "political footballs".
v
(transitive) To subject to hegemony
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A form of state religion in which a god-king is worshipped as a demigod or deity.
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A decree issued by a sovereign.
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A disease that arises from colonial exploration and causes significant harm to an empire, especially the British Empire.
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(historical) A civil service examination system in imperial China to select candidates for the state bureaucracy.
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Imperial rights or privileges.
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Quality of being imperial.
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People of imperial rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
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The formation of an empire
adj
(chiefly theology) Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.
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A belief in, or policy of, liberation.
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The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.
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The control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
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A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.
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(Canada) The transfer of a governmental power from a former mother country to a newly independent one.
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(politics) The state of being (or process of becoming) politicized
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The dependence of a city or other geographical region on another more powerful one
n
(politics) Imperialism subordinate to another imperialism.
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