nonexpansion

alternative non-expansion

1. uncountableAbsence of expansion.
2. uncountablegovernmentRefusing to expand; abstaining from expansion.First known use 19th c.

   The resulting nonexpansion policy (fukakudai hōshin), embodied in the September 24 “First Official Statement,” clearly set forth government opposition to a full-scale occupation of Manchuria and to any further military action.

   1998, Louise Young, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120