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单词 decolonialization
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decolonializationn.

Brit. /ˌdiːkələʊnɪəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌdikəˌloʊnjələˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌdikəˌloʊnjəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌdikəˌloʊniələˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌdikəˌloʊniəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: see de- prefix and colonialization n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: de- prefix, colonialization n.
Etymology: < de- prefix + colonialization n. Compare earlier decolonialize v. and decolonization n.In sense 1 originally after German Dekolonisierung (1930 in the passage translated in quot. 1931).
1. The acquisition of political or economic independence by a country formerly governed by a colonial power; the withdrawal of such a power from its colonies.
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1931 A. Livingston tr. P. Scheffer Seven Years in Soviet Russia iv. v. 275 Moscow can also point to Afghanistan when desirous of showing that the conduct of that country harmonizes with the Kremlin's conception of the fundamental tendencies of the Asiatic peoples: ‘decolonialization’, ‘nationalization’.
1968 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 1/3 The Assembly approved..a resolution to ask Spain to ‘accelerate the decolonialisation’ of Ifni and Spanish Sahara.
2005 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. This mighty struggle of the Indian people..not only brought freedom to the subcontinent but also contributed to the galvanisation of the decolonialisation drive across the world.
2. The process of reducing or eliminating the effects or influence of colonization or colonialism on the attitudes, power structures, institutions, etc., of a formerly colonized people or (later also) a former colonial power or culture.For a discussion of this process, see note at decolonization n. 2.
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1962 V. D. Du Bois Probl. Independence 1 Decolonialisation [misquoting 1959 A. S. Touré Toward Full Re-Africanisation: Decolonization] is the reconversion of colonial mentalities into Guinean mentalities.
1971 J. A. Barnes Three Styles in Study of Kinship 267 If social anthropology is ever going to complete the process of intellectual de-colonialization..a satisfactory scheme for handling these contrasts is essential.
2018 CrossCurrents Sept. 339 Calls for the decolonialization of museums are gaining momentum.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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