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deimperialization en · NOUN

Etymology

From de- + imperialization.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The process of deimperializing; the dismantling or formal ending of an empire.
   • Perhaps the British should study Turkey; God knows, we need models for de-imperialisation. 1972, Angela Carter, “The Back of Beyond”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 253:
   • The implosion of the USSR itself, beginning in 1991 after the loss of its east European dominions, in effect constituted an enormous deimperialization process of a system based on eight decades of ‘internal terror and fear of external enemies’. 2007, Bertil Nygren, The Rebuilding of Greater Russia:

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deimperialize