neoimperialism
/ˌni.oʊ.ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
8
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A contemporary form of imperialism; modern imperialistic practices by a country, such as using influence and power to dominate smaller countries.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[T]he Turkish Government should from now on recognize and act upon the assumption that Russian neo-imperialism is a definite threat to the safety and independence of Turkey."
- "From the moment this word [Geopolitik] was seized by the Germans, it became the best descriptive term of the guiding philosophy of German neoimperialism."
- "[T]he Afro-Asian peoples common basic mission is to continue their present battle against the old and neoimperialisms and to win and secure national independence."
- "After World War II, European powers like Britain and France adopted a strategy of neoimperialism. Financially depleted by years of warfare, and facing intensified popular resistance from within the Third World itself, they reluctantly decided that indirect economic hegemony was less costly and politically more expedient than outright colonial rule. […] Furthermore, under neoimperialism the native government takes up the costs of administering the country while the imperialist interests are free to concentrate on accumulating capital, which is all they really want to do."
- "In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Western powers put aside the indirect forms of neo-imperialism and opted for direct colonialism."
- "In his 1958 autobiography, he [Edgar Snow] described Marxism as a 'heretical' descendant of Western Judeo-Christianity that was an imperfect fit as an ideology for anti-colonial revolutions in Asia. The old empires were crumbling but were being replaced by neo-imperialisms."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌni.oʊ.ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/
- British English: /ˌniː.əʊ.ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/