colonialism
nounUK /kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/ · US /kəˈloʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/
Etymology From colonial + -ism.
1
The seizure of geographical area to extract its natural resources or exploit the labor of the indigenous peoples to remotely benefit a distant country.
- Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
2
Colloquial, Derogatory, Often The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people.
- It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
3
Broadly, Derogatory Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
4
A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
- Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 239:
5
Colonial life.
- Derived terms
- anticolonialism, biocolonialism, biocolonialist, Coca-Colonialism, cybercolonialism, Eurocolonialism, green colonialism, internal colonialism, neocolonialism, paracolonialism, postcolonialism, pseudocolonialism, semicolonialism, settler colonialism