subimperialist
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
subimperialist (comparative more subimperialist, superlative most subimperialist)
- (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, , →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[edit]
subimperialist (plural subimperialists)
- (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.