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The control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: neoimperialism
Antonyms: none provided
control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: colonialism
By surface analysis, neo + colonialism, or, by surface analysis, neocolonial + ism.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
اِسْتِعْمَار جَدِيد
(istiʕmār jadīd)
— control or domination of one country by another
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Catalan:
neocolonialisme
— control or domination of one country by another
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Chinese Mandarin:
新殖民主義 /新殖民主义
(xīnzhímínzhǔyì)
— control or domination of one country by another
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Esperanto:
novkoloniismo
— control or domination of one country by another
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Finnish:
uuskolonialismi
— control or domination of one country by another
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Georgian:
ნეოკოლონიალიზმი
(neoḳolonializmi)
— control or domination of one country by another
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German:
Neokolonialismus
— control or domination of one country by another
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Greek:
νεοαποικιοκρατία
(neoapoikiokratía)
— control or domination of one country by another
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Indonesian:
neokolonialisme
— control or domination of one country by another
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Italian:
neocolonialismo
— control or domination of one country by another
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Korean:
신식민주의
(sinsingminjuui)
— control or domination of one country by another
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Malay:
neokolonialisme
— control or domination of one country by another
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Mongolian:
шинэ колончлол
(šine kolončlol)
— control or domination of one country by another
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Polish:
neokolonializm
— control or domination of one country by another
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Portuguese:
neocolonialismo
— control or domination of one country by another
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Romanian:
neocolonialism
— control or domination of one country by another
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Spanish:
neocolonialismo
— control or domination of one country by another
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Swahili:
ukoloni mamboleo
— control or domination of one country by another
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Tagalog:
pagkamakabagunsakupin
— control or domination of one country by another
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Vietnamese:
chủ nghĩa thực dân mới
— control or domination of one country by another
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Welsh:
neo-wladychiaeth
— control or domination of one country by another
