empire building

noun

1. the plans, activities, achievements, etc., of an empire builder.

Word History and Origins

Origin of empire building¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

As agents of Nazi empire-building, these women were assigned the constructive work of the German “civilizing” process.

From The Daily Beast

It acquired Merrill Lynch in 2008 as part of the empire-building efforts of former CEO Kenneth Lewis.

From The Daily Beast

The TSA has often spent more of its energy on bureaucratic empire building than in taking decisive action.

From The Daily Beast

Sandy Weill: Did his empire building result in a company that was literally unmanageable?

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I'd a hope it meant something connected with Empire-building, and then Otty could have scored off him.

From Project Gutenberg

Colonies are desired as bases of operation in the game of empire building by conquest.

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Raffles possessed the empire-building instinct, surely, and earned the honor of interment in Westminster Abbey.

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It will interest the politician as a chapter of Empire-building, in which the author himself has played no small part.

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Sir Henry Morgan played an important part in the stirring drama of Empire-building.

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