- 1擴張主義
Expansionism is when a country or a group tries to take more land or more power. Newspapers use it with a cold or angry tone — it is not a compliment. The first and strongest use is about countries and empires; people also stretch it to companies that keep swallowing smaller ones. A person who backs that policy is an expansionist. Though actually, the country doing the expanding almost never calls it expansionism. They call it security, or , or opportunity. The - is other people's word for it, and it usually shows .
組成From expansion + -ism ('a belief or policy').
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expansionismnoun/ɛkˈspænʃənɪzəm/
- 1
The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.
- European colonialism exported its domestic, counter-revolutionary Inquisition around the world, starting with Portuguese expansionism around 1500 C.E.
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