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NEOCOLONIALISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("neocolonialism" is a kind of...):
colonialism (exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country)
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