subimperialist

comparative more subimperialist · superlative most subimperialist · alternative sub-imperialist

1. governmentOf or pertaining to subimperialism.First known use 20th c.

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   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.

   2019, Clive Moore, chapter 7, in Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire, Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 351

   Synonyms: subimperial

plural subimperialists · alternative sub-imperialist

1. governmentSomebody who is committed to a subimperialism.First known use 20th c.

   But by the 1930s, the imperial garrisons had multiplied and the institutional complexity of the armed services opened new possibilities for subimperialists.

   1998, Louise Young, chapter 2, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47