subimperialist

English

Alternative forms

• sub-imperialist

Adjective

subimperialist (comparative more subimperialist, superlative most subimperialist)

1. (politics) Of or pertaining to subimperialism. [20th c.]

   Synonym: subimperial

   • 2019, Clive Moore, chapter 7, in Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire‎^[1], Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 351:

     In the immediate post-World War I period, when the Solomons was included in Australia’s subimperialist designs, photographer and columnist Thomas McMahon made a similar trip, publishing hundreds of photographs of Solomon Islands in Australian, British and American magazines and illustrated newspapers.

Noun

subimperialist (plural subimperialists)

1. (politics) Somebody who is committed to a subimperialism. [20th c.]
   • 1998, Louise Young, chapter 2, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism‎^[2], Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

     But by the 1930s, the imperial garrisons had multiplied and the institutional complexity of the armed services opened new possibilities for subimperialists.