expansionist

[ik-span-shuhn-ist]

noun

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

adjective

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

Example Sentences

Sanae Takaichi, the new head of the Liberal Democratic Party, is viewed as being in favor of expansionist economic policies and once called the Bank of Japan’s rate increases “stupid.”

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He has control over planning in the West Bank and has repeatedly pushed expansionist policies.

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However, some Druze figures in Syria and Lebanon have accused Israel of stoking sectarian divisions to advance its own expansionist aspirations in the region.

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Another surprising thing to me has been Trump’s expansionist rhetoric around annexing Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, etc.

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It fretted that Europe, with its economy and infrastructure in tatters, was vulnerable both to home-grown communist parties and abroad from an expansionist Soviet Union.

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