nonexpansion
nonexpansion noun: absence of expansion.
Noun
nonexpansion (uncountable)
- Absence of expansion.
- Refusing to expand; abstaining from expansion.
- The resulting nonexpansion policy (fukakudai hōshin), embodied in the September 24 “First Official Statement,” clearly set forth government opposition to a full-scale occupation of Manchuria and to any further military action.1998, Louise Young, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120
Forms of nonexpansion
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Origin of nonexpansion
From non- + expansion.
Questions about nonexpansion
- What does nonexpansion mean?
- Nonexpansion means absence of expansion.
- What part of speech is nonexpansion?
- Nonexpansion is a noun.
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