subimperialism

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subimperialism (countable and uncountable, plural subimperialisms)

1. (politics) Imperialism subordinate to another imperialism. [20th c.]
   • 1998, Louise Young, chapter 2, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 30:

     Acting sometimes at the behest of the army high command or with the unofficial support of civilian officials, and sometimes on independent initiative, Kwantung Army officers made the army into an agent of subimperialism.

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• subimperialist