Expansionist

Synonyms for "expansionist" (24 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
aggrandizingcolonial eracolonial outpostcolonial policycolonialist

Strong matches (7)

Noun(7 words)

Related words (12)

Noun(11 words)
expansionistsexpansivegrowth orientedimperial eraimperial policyimperialistimperialisticimperialistsirredentamarket expandingscale expanding
Adjective(1 words)
territorial expansion

Related word relations

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More general

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adjectivebusiness descriptoreconomic termhistorical movementhistorical periodideologypolicypolitical stancepolitical term

More specific

11 entries
colonial expansionismcolonial expansionistcorporate expansionisteconomic expansionistimperial expansionistindustrial expansionistinterwar expansionismlate Victorian expansionismmarket expansionistmilitarist expansionistmilitary expansionism

Collocations

6 entries
expansionist agendaexpansionist aimsexpansionist driveexpansionist policyexpansionist rhetoricexpansionist state

Inflections

3 entries
expansionistsmore expansionistmost expansionist

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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"Iberism" is the new costume of the most expansionist Spanish nationalism. New Guernicas are to be expected...

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Therefore “Obama is focused on isolating Putin’s Russia by cutting off its economic and political ties to the outside world, limiting its expansionist ambitions in its own neighborhood and effectively making it a pariah state,” Peter Baker reports in The New York Times.

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The empire fell as a result of the expansionist tendencies of its neighbors.

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The battle checked the empire's expansionist tendencies.

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