expansionism

expansionism
expansionist, n., adj.expansionistic, adj.
/ik span"sheuh niz'euhm/, n.
a policy of expansion, as of territory or currency: the colonial expansionism of Europe in the 19th century.
[1895-1900; EXPANSION + -ISM]

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