intercolonial en · ADJ
Etymology
From inter- + colonial.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Between colonies
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement.
These outlaws, [Mitford] Mathews infers, were groups of backwoodsmen who stole goods and perhaps even operated crime syndicates on an intercolonial scale. As the Cochrane fragment attests, crackers had reputations for being ill-mannered, arrogant, treacherous, and cruel, stealing from Indians and propertied white colonists alike.
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 36:
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Translations (1)
pt intercolonial (between colonies)