nonexpansion

English

Alternative forms

• non-expansion

Etymology

From non- +‎ expansion.

Noun

nonexpansion (uncountable)

1. Absence of expansion.
2. (politics) Refusing to expand; abstaining from expansion. [19th c.]
   • 1998, Louise Young, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:

     The resulting nonexpansion policy (fukakudai hōshin), embodied in the September 24 “First Official Statement,” clearly set forth government opposition to a full-scale occupation of Manchuria and to any further military action.