Usually means: Accumulating power, expanding territorial control.
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  1. empire-building: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. empire-building, empire-building: Collins English Dictionary
  3. empire-building: Wordnik
  4. Empire-building: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. empire-building: Dictionary/thesaurus
  6. empire-building: Wiktionary

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  1. Empire-Building: Financial dictionary

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noun:  The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility or staff within an organization for the purpose of self-aggrandizement.

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