Synonyms for colonialism
kəˈloʊ ni əˌlɪz əmcolo·nial·ism

Princeton's WordNet

1. colonialismnoun

   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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1. • Exploitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "colonialism":

   colonization, decolonization, colonial, colonialist, colonisation

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1. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

   The [Columbus] statue is really a tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy. There are mixed feelings among locals, but Taíno and other Indigenous peoples of Borikén [an Indigenous name for the island] would like to see it gone, as it is looked upon as an embarrassment.

2. Zimbabwe Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe:

   The issue of salary delays is a temporary problem. It's not a reason for teachers, doctors and nurses to go on strike. Most of them don't understand where we have come from during times of colonialism.

3. Andrew Galvan:

   Everybody ... asks, Andy, how can you support the guy? I have to be able to sleep at night. So I have answered that: I believe Junipero Serra was a very, very good man in a very, very bad situation. And the bad situation is what we call colonialism, junipero Serra is being proclaimed a saint because he lived the life of a saint.

4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   One hundred years ago, two officials by the name of Mark Sykes and Francois-George Picot tried to dictate a new order in the Middle East. It was at the apex of the era of colonialism in our era. This effort utterly failed then, and will completely fail today.

5. Ganesha Gold Buffalo:

   For gender, myself, it’s been a constant struggle under colonialism, not to accept and affirm myself, but to find acceptance and affirmation and understanding outside of myself.