empire building
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of empire building
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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The rapid empire building has stirred unease in Hollywood, where filmmakers and other talent worry that concentrating so much production and distribution under one owner could give them fewer places to sell their work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
"A lot of the maps we have are military mapping so you get things that are of interest to armies and of interest to empire building, raw materials, resources, things like that."
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Bismarck originally believed empire building was a foolish venture that cost more than it returned.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Shakespeare offers little room for arias, although Adams borrows from Dryden’s translations of Virgil’s “Aeneid” to give one to Caesar, who stands for the force of modernity in his empire building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
But the Emperor was not there to discuss empire building, much less to face the tigerish light in his lady’s eyes.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
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