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subimperialist

subimperialist adjective: of or pertaining to subimperialism.

Adjective

subimperialist (comparative more subimperialist, superlative most subimperialist)

  1. Of or pertaining to subimperialism.
    • In the immediate post-World War I period, when the Solomons was included in Australia’s subimperialist designs, photographer and columnist Thomas McMahon made a similar trip, publishing hundreds of photographs of Solomon Islands in Australian, British and American magazines and illustrated...2019, Clive Moore, chapter 7, in Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire, Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 351
    Synonyms:
    subimperial

Noun

subimperialist (plural subimperialists)

  1. Somebody who is committed to a subimperialism.
    • But by the 1930s, the imperial garrisons had multiplied and the institutional complexity of the armed services opened new possibilities for subimperialists.1998, Louise Young, chapter 2, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47

Synonyms of subimperialist

Forms of subimperialist

Adjective
comparativemore subimperialist
superlativemost subimperialist
alternative formsub-imperialist
Noun
pluralsubimperialists

Questions about subimperialist

What does subimperialist mean?
Subimperialist means of or pertaining to subimperialism.
What part of speech is subimperialist?
Subimperialist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near subimperialist in the dictionary

  1. subimmunogenic
  2. subimperforate
  3. subimperial
  4. subimperialism
  5. subimperialisms
  6. subimperialist
  7. subimperialists
  8. subimpose
  9. subimposed
  10. subimposes
  11. subimposing

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