colonial experience

noun

1. history experience of farming, etc, gained by a young Englishman in colonial Australia

Derived Forms

• colonial experiencer, noun

Example Sentences

Lukashenko, shaped by the colonial experience, stifled their project in infancy.

From The Daily Beast

All these men get colonial experience, but it does not make them saintly or rich.

From Project Gutenberg

This will give him what is called 'colonial experience,' for want of which many an able man fails at the threshold.

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But the general system of trade restriction was maintained throughout all of Spain's colonial experience.

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Colonial experience, before and since, would hardly authorise any other conclusion.

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Three years ago he came to Australia to get colonial experience, prior to settling on the land.

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