Self-colonise
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of self-colonize.; To regain power after being colonized.
"Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes."
- 2 Alternative form of self-colonize.; To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes.
"Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed."
Example
More examples"Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes."
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