expansionism

English

Etymology

From expansion +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈspænʃənɪzəm/

Noun

expansionism (countable and uncountable, plural expansionisms)

1. The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.
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     European colonialism exported its domestic, counter-revolutionary Inquisition around the world, starting with Portuguese expansionism around 1500 C.E.

Related terms

• expansionist

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expansionisme. By surface analysis, expansiune +‎ -ism.

Noun

expansionism n (uncountable)

1. expansionism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	expansionism	expansionismul
genitive-dative	expansionism	expansionismului
vocative	expansionismule