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When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.
Ismail Haniyeh

Meaning of "expansionist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXPANSIONIST

expansionist  [ɪkˈspænʃənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXPANSIONIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Expansionist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EXPANSIONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Expansionism

In general, expansionism consists of expansionist policies of governments and states. While some have linked the term to promoting economic growth, more commonly expansionism refers to the doctrine of a state expanding its territorial base usually, though not necessarily, by means of military aggression. Compare empire-building, colonialism, and Lebensraum. Irredentism, revanchism, reunification or pan-nationalism are sometimes used to justify and legitimize expansionism, but only when the explicit goal is to reconquer territories that have been lost, or to take over ancestral lands. A simple territorial dispute, such as a border dispute, is not usually referred to as expansionism.

Definition of expansionist in the English dictionary

The definition of expansionist in the dictionary is of, relating to, or having a policy of territorial expansionism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXPANSIONIST


abortionist
əˈbɔːʃənɪst
abstentionist
æbˈstɛnʃənɪst
ascensionist
əˈsɛnʃənɪst
constructionist
kənˈstrʌkʃənɪst
conventionist
kənˈvɛnʃənɪst
educationist
ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst
evolutionist
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənɪst
exhibitionist
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst
expressionist
ɪkˈsprɛʃənɪst
extensionist
ɪkˈstenʃənɪst
impressionist
ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst
interventionist
ˌɪntəˈvɛnʃənɪst
noninterventionist
ˌnɒnɪntəˈvɛnʃənɪst
nutritionist
njuːˈtrɪʃənɪst
perfectionist
pəˈfɛkʃənɪst
projectionist
prəˈdʒɛkʃənɪst
receptionist
rɪˈsɛpʃənɪst
reductionist
rɪˈdʌkʃənɪst
retentionist
rɪˈtɛnʃənɪst
revolutionist
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXPANSIONIST

expansibility
expansible
expansibly
expansile
expansion
expansion bend
expansion bolt
expansion bottle
expansion card
expansion joint
expansion slot
expansion tank
expansional
expansionary
expansionism
expansionistic
expansive
expansively
expansiveness
expansivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXPANSIONIST

accordionist
agonist
antagonist
anti-Zionist
balloonist
cartoonist
colonist
communist
conservationist
dental receptionist
fashionist
hotel receptionist
illusionist
precisionist
protagonist
revisionist
saxophonist
telephonist
trade unionist
unionist
Zionist

Synonyms and antonyms of expansionist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «expansionist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXPANSIONIST

Find out the translation of expansionist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of expansionist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «expansionist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

扩张
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

expansionista
570 millions of speakers

English

expansionist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विस्तारवादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التوسعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экспансионистская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

expansionista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্প্রসারণবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

expansionniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengembangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

expansionistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

拡張論者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

팽창
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Expansionist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bành trướng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீட்டிப்புக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विस्तारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yayılmacı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

espansionista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

expansionist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

експансіоністська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

expansionist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επεκτατική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ekspansionistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

expansionist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekspansjonistiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of expansionist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPANSIONIST»

The term «expansionist» is normally little used and occupies the 110.965 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXPANSIONIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about expansionist

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2 QUOTES WITH «EXPANSIONIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word expansionist.
1
Ismail Haniyeh
When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.
2
Ben Shapiro
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXPANSIONIST»

Discover the use of expansionist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to expansionist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of an ...
A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change
Raymond Case Kelly, 1985
2
James K. Polk and the expansionist impulse
This text incorporates the latest scholarship and draws upon the longer, far more extensive studies of Polk's life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history.
Sam Walter Haynes, 2006
3
Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion
A critical history of Israel's expanisionist politics that reveals how imperialist tendencies run the gamut from Left to Right.
Nur Masalha, 2000
4
Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the ...
Doug Owram analyses the various phases of this development, examining in particular the writings - historical, scientific, journalistic, and promotional - that illuminate one of the most significant movements in the history of nineteenth ...
Doug Owram, 1992
5
Rural Livelihoods, Resources, and Coping with Crisis in ...
Table 9.1 Households with expansionist-innovating enterprise strategies, Parigi 2003 Source: Household survey Parigi, 2003 HH Nr. = Household number, SE Group = Social-economic group, L.C.F = Life cycle phase The second column ...
M. J. Titus, Paul P. M. Burgers, 2008
6
Trust and Mistrust in International Relations
Implication 3.2 Defection will be more damaging to trust if the observer is security seeking than if it is expansionist. If player j defects, the security seeking type of player i will become more suspicious as a result of this act than the expansionist  ...
Andrew H. Kydd, 2005
7
Introduction to Energy: Resources, Technology, and Society
Limitationist and expansionist positions embody the ambivalence that industrial society has shown for the technology that created it. The expansionist belief in a technical fix}0 for problems that beset us is deeply rooted in the experience of the  ...
Edward S. Cassedy, Peter Z. Grossman, 1998
8
A New Homicide Act for England and Wales?: A Consultation Paper
[Question 2(b)] The radicaI expansionist position 9.87 The radical expansionist position builds upon the moderate reform position. Like the moderate reform position, the radical expansionist position holds that "circumstances consequent upon ...
‎2006
9
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Concise
The same corporate elite that dominated late-nineteenth-century domestic politics influenced U.S. foreign policy as well, contributing to surging expansionist pressures. Business leaders, politicians, statesmen, and editorial writers insisted that ...
Paul Boyer, Clifford Clark, Karen Halttunen, 2012
10
Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
packaged with expansionist rhetoric. In 1855 Harper's Monthly published an article about the Araucanians, an isolated tribe in Southern Chile, drawn from the report of a member of the U.S. Navy Astronomical Expedition to Chile. The article's ...
Amy S. Greenberg, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXPANSIONIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term expansionist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Can one dysfunctional state as small as Greece really end the …
... the threat of an expansionist Russia, climate change, refugees in the Mediterranean or world trade deals can be tackled by one nation alone. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Regional implications of a nuclear agreement with Iran
The first is that while Iranian strategy is anti-American, anti-status quo, anti-Semitic, aggressive and expansionist, it is not reckless and typically ... «Brookings Institution, Jul 15»
3
Explained: Why America's Strategy Against ISIS Is Doomed to Fail
In the Islamic State (ISIS), we face a determined enemy melding terrorism and guerrilla warfare with an expansionist, state-building agenda and ... «The National Interest Online, Jul 15»
4
Iranian Moneyman Gave to Clinton Foundation
Arguing that the longstanding U.S. policy of containment “is actually obsolete because Iran is no longer an expansionist power,” they called not ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
5
Is China Heading for Its Own Crash of '29?
Prior to the 2008 global financial meltdown, monetary policy in China was expansionist, just as it was in the United States and much of the ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
6
China's ZTE to partner with SoftBank to bring 'pre-5G' technology to …
... in March of the official end of the second world war in Europe, as memories of Japan's expansionist moves during that period still rankle. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
7
Why the Islamic State won't become a normal state
... State into the community of civilized nations as it has accepted other revolutionary and expansionist states in the past, because the pressures ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
8
IRAN COULD HELP turn the tables on the jihadists
They will continue to fret over Iran's "expansionist" foreign policy and its sponsorship of militant groups of its own choosing, but they must see ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
9
'Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga,' by Pamela Newkirk
... after all, during Theodore Roosevelt's expansionist (if not jingoistic) presidency — while remaining uncaring about the mistreatment of the ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
10
Morocco dismantles new IS recruitment cell
The arrested individuals showed loyalty to the IS expansionist strategy which aims at attracting Moroccan fighters who will later return to the ... «GlobalPost, Jul 15»

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