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empire building

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of empire building1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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