imperialism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: im‧per‧i‧al‧i‧sm
Noun
[edit]imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)
- The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
- 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
- Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
- (figurative, derogatory) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority.
- 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:
- The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
- 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:
- By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
- 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:
- […] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the policy of extending power, by force
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Further reading
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imperialism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imperialism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Imperialism”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 159
- “imperialism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French impérialisme. By surface analysis, imperial + -ism.
Noun
[edit]imperialism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | imperialism | imperialismul |
| genitive-dative | imperialism | imperialismului |
| vocative | imperialismule | |
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Noun
[edit]imperialism c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | imperialism | imperialisms |
| definite | imperialismen | imperialismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
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