the practice by which a powerful country controls another country or other countries European colonialism The history of tobacco growing is intimately associated with colonialism and slavery.
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adjective, noun colonialist laws The colonialists imposed war on the country.See colonialism in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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