subimperialist
English
Alternative forms
- sub-imperialist
Adjective
subimperialist (comparative more subimperialist, superlative most subimperialist)
- (politics) Of or pertaining to subimperialism. [20th c.]
- Synonym: subimperial
- 2019, Moore, Clive, chapter 7, in Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire, Australian National University Press, DOI: , →ISBN, page 351:
- 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 newspapers.
Noun
subimperialist (plural subimperialists)
- (politics) Somebody who is committed to a subimperialism. [20th c.]
- 1998, Young, Louise, chapter 2, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, OCLC 1075719454, page 47:
- But by the 1930s, the imperial garrisons had multiplied and the institutional complexity of the armed services opened new possibilities for subimperialists.
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