expansionist

American  

[ik-span-shuhn-ist] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən ɪst /

noun

1. someone who advocates a policy of expansion of territory, currency, political influence, or other forms of power.

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adjective

1. relating to, advocating, or arising from a policy of expansion of territory, currency, political influence, or other forms of power.

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expansionist

The richest cache, in Kolkata's National Library, consists of 21 volumes devoted to the reign of Aurangzeb, who ruled the Mughal empire from 1658 to 1707 and was its last great expansionist emperor.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

In practice, popes often used “just cause” elastically, blessing the expansionist campaigns of kings and emperors and sometimes even donning armor themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Washington turned out to be the ideal radical expansionist to follow in Boulez’s footsteps for the new LACMA, with a resplendent enlargement of his 2018 half-hour EP, “Harmony of Difference.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

They might look to King Charles as their head of state, and head of the Commonwealth too, to strongly speak up for them and to rebuff such expansionist claims from the US president.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025

The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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