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colonizer|ˈkɒlənaɪzə(r)|
1. One who colonizes.
1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 25, I have given the Reader some idea of the first colonizers of Connecticut. 1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 149 Certain other warlike colonisers. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. xxx. 92 The oldest colonizers of the Delaware were Swedes. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life xxii. 472 Alpine plants possess two advantages as colonisers.
2. One who ‘colonizes’ voters; a voter who is ‘colonized’. Also transf. U.S. politics.
1892Nation LV. 274/3 The New York cheats, bullies, receivers, colonizers. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 7 Nov. 1 The superintendent of elections is authority for the statement that there are gangs of colonizers and repeaters in the city. 1949B'ham (Ala.) News 8 Apr. 22/2 The witness quoted Blum as saying ‘the status of a colonizer’ is ‘a high honor in the party’. |