noun [U] (usually disapproving)
1 a system in which one country controls other countries, often after defeating them in a war:
Roman imperialism
2 the fact of a powerful country increasing its influence over other countries through business, culture, etc:
cultural / economic imperialism
imperialist (also imperialistic ) adjective:
an imperialist power * imperialist ambitions
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