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noun

colonialism

exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country

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Six example sentences with colonialism, each labelled with its topic.

  • Rubber, tin and cocoa flowed one way out of the Congo basin for decades, a textbook case of colonialism.

    History

  • Railways built under colonialism ran from mines to ports and almost never linked two inland towns to each other.

    Economics

  • Independence leaders in 1960 argued that colonialism had left their treasuries empty while enriching distant shareholders for eighty years.

    Politics

  • Conrad's novella exposes colonialism through an ivory trading station where the wealth flows out and nothing returns.

    Literature

  • Museum curators now label bronzes seized under colonialism, and several have been shipped back to Benin.

    Art

  • Rubber plantations laid out under colonialism replaced rainforest with a single crop grown only for export.

    Environment

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