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NEOCOLONIALISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neocolonialism mean?
• NEOCOLONIALISM (noun)
The noun NEOCOLONIALISM has 1 sense:
1. control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
Familiarity information: NEOCOLONIALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("neocolonialism" is a kind of...):
colonialism (exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country)
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