English
Etymology
From expansion + -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈspænʃənɪzəm/
Noun
expansionism (countable and uncountable, plural expansionisms)
- The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.
2007 September 27, Leslie Feinberg, “Western rulers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world”, in Workers World[1]:European colonialism exported its domestic, counter-revolutionary Inquisition around the world, starting with Portuguese expansionism around 1500 C.E.
Derived terms
Translations
tendency to annex territories
- Albanian: ekspansionizëm (sq) m
- Arabic: تَوَسُّعِيَّة f (tawassuʕiyya)
- Armenian: էքսպանսիոնիզմ (hy) (ēkʻspansionizm)
- Azerbaijani: ekspansionizm
- Belarusian: экспансіяні́зм m (ekspansijanízm)
- Bulgarian: експанзиони́зъм m (ekspanzionízǎm)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擴張主義 / 扩张主义 (zh) (kuòzhāngzhǔyì), 膨脹主義 / 膨胀主义 (zh) (péngzhàngzhǔyì)
- Czech: expanzionismus m
- Dutch: expansionisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: ekspansionism
- French: expansionnisme (fr) m
- Georgian: ექსპანსიონიზმი (eksṗansionizmi)
- German: Expansionismus m
- Greek: επεκτατισμός (el) m (epektatismós)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: विस्तारवाद m (vistārvād)
- Hungarian: expanzionizmus, terjeszkedési politika, terjeszkedő politika
- Italian: espansionismo (it) m
- Japanese: 膨張主義 (ぼうちょうしゅぎ, bōchōshugi)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 팽창주의(膨脹主義) (paengchangjuui)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: експанзиони́зам m (ekspanzionízam)
- Persian: توسعهطلبی (fa) (towse'e-talabi)
- Polish: ekspansjonizm (pl) m
- Portuguese: expansionismo (pt) m
- Romanian: expansionism (ro) n
- Russian: экспансиони́зм (ru) m (ekspansionízm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: експанзионѝзам m
- Roman: ekspanzionìzam (sh) m
- Slovak: expanzionizmus m
- Slovene: ekspanzionizem m
- Spanish: expansionismo m
- Swedish: expansionism (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: експансіоні́зм m (ekspansionízm)
- Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa bành trướng
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French expansionisme. By surface analysis, expansiune + -ism.
Noun
expansionism n (uncountable)
- expansionism
Declension
Declension of expansionism
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indefinite
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definite
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| nominative-accusative
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expansionism
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expansionismul
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| genitive-dative
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expansionism
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expansionismului
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| vocative
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expansionismule
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