the belief in and process of increasing the size and importance of something, especially in a country or a business the economic expansionism of America military/territorial expansionism
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NAmE//ɪkˈspænʃənɪst//
adjective expansionist policies noun He was a ruthless expansionist.See expansionism in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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