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Colonise

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  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.

    "“I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said."

  2. 2
    settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) wordnet
  3. 3
    settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world wordnet

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