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Anti-imperialist
(gcide) | Anti-imperialism \An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ism\, n.
Opposition to imperialism.
Note: This term was applied originally in the United States,
after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude
or principles of those opposing territorial expansion;
in England, of those, often called Little Englanders,
opposing the extension of the empire and the closer
relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and
imperial defense. After the second world war, the term
became used for opposition to any hegemony of one power
over a foreign territory, and to the support for the
national independence of territories, as in Africa,
which were controlled by European nations. --
An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. --
An`ti-im*pe`ri*al*is"tic, a.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] |
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anti-imperialistic
(encz) | anti-imperialistic,protiimperialistický Pavel Cvrček |
Anti-imperialistic
(gcide) | Anti-imperialism \An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ism\, n.
Opposition to imperialism.
Note: This term was applied originally in the United States,
after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude
or principles of those opposing territorial expansion;
in England, of those, often called Little Englanders,
opposing the extension of the empire and the closer
relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and
imperial defense. After the second world war, the term
became used for opposition to any hegemony of one power
over a foreign territory, and to the support for the
national independence of territories, as in Africa,
which were controlled by European nations. --
An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. --
An`ti-im*pe`ri*al*is"tic, a.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] |
anti-imperialist international brigade
(wn) | Anti-Imperialist International Brigade
n 1: a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the
Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world
revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian
terrorists; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible
for a massacre at an airport in Israel" [syn: {Japanese Red
Army}, JRA, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade] |
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