Usually means: Ending colonial control or influence.
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  3. decolonization: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. decolonization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. decolonization: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. Decolonization (medicine), Decolonization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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noun:  The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence.
noun:  (social sciences) The reverse of colonization, i.e. granting back autonomy to a group.
noun:  (medicine) The elimination of a colony of pathogens from the body of a patient, especially antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

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