| 单词 | empire-building |
| 释义 | empire-building From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishempire-buildingˈempire-ˌbuilding noun [uncountable]attempts to get more power within the organization you work forExamples from the Corpusempire-building• Together, they point to aggressive empire-building by the duke in the north.• Any change in the boundaries of authority should be the result of conscious planning, and not surreptitious empire-building.• Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.• All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries. |
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