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单词 decolonize
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Definition of decolonize in English:

decolonize

(British decolonise)
verbdiːˈkɒlənʌɪzdiˈkɑləˌnaɪz
[with object]
  • (of a state) withdraw from (a colony), leaving it independent.

    Spain seemed in no hurry to decolonize those lands
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We had a policy under which the nations of the so-called ‘developing world,’ today, would have been decolonized immediately at the end of the war, under U.S. power.
    • In Canada and the United States, we tend to think of ourselves as being far ahead of other Indigenous peoples in decolonising this continent.
    • When Britain tried to decolonise Rhodesia in the 1960s, it was opposed by the white settlers who eventually made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.
    • Britain could be seen as conquering the Transkei, and Afrikaners as decolonizing it.
    • This fourth option involves nothing short of decolonizing the Nation of Anishinabe.
    • At home, the indigenous population came out from under the regimes of the protectors and directors of native welfare, and with the arrival of a Labor government, plans were set for Papua New Guinea to be decolonised.
    • Spain seemed in no hurry to decolonize those lands.
    • British army personnel were prioritized, but when the number of military dead surpassed that of British losses in Cyprus, the IRA realized that Britain would or could not easily decolonize Ireland.
    • Out of fear of becoming decolonized as a part of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba opted for separate status.
    • It wasn't only Africa that was decolonized; the end of empire was also a process of decolonialization.
    • It has been felt all the more now that most of the African countries have been decolonised and ever since South Africa held its first democratic election in 1994.

Derivatives

  • decolonization

  • nounˌdiːkɒlənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • The action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.

      they thought they could assist the process of decolonization and local self-determination
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the decolonization of Africa and Asia
      • as modifier the decolonization process
      • If British governments ever pursued a distinct policy of decolonization, it was in the Afro-Caribbean world between 1960 and roughly 1966.
      • These developments are I think to be understood in the context of the final phases of decolonisation and the Cold War.
      • These weak states originally were European colonies that achieved sovereignty as a result of decolonization.

Rhymes

recolonize
 
 

Definition of decolonize in US English:

decolonize

(British decolonise)
verbdēˈkäləˌnīzdiˈkɑləˌnaɪz
[with object]
  • (of a country) withdraw from (a colony), leaving it independent.

    they must decolonize French Polynesia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Out of fear of becoming decolonized as a part of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba opted for separate status.
    • We had a policy under which the nations of the so-called ‘developing world,’ today, would have been decolonized immediately at the end of the war, under U.S. power.
    • This fourth option involves nothing short of decolonizing the Nation of Anishinabe.
    • At home, the indigenous population came out from under the regimes of the protectors and directors of native welfare, and with the arrival of a Labor government, plans were set for Papua New Guinea to be decolonised.
    • It has been felt all the more now that most of the African countries have been decolonised and ever since South Africa held its first democratic election in 1994.
    • Spain seemed in no hurry to decolonize those lands.
    • British army personnel were prioritized, but when the number of military dead surpassed that of British losses in Cyprus, the IRA realized that Britain would or could not easily decolonize Ireland.
    • In Canada and the United States, we tend to think of ourselves as being far ahead of other Indigenous peoples in decolonising this continent.
    • When Britain tried to decolonise Rhodesia in the 1960s, it was opposed by the white settlers who eventually made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.
    • Britain could be seen as conquering the Transkei, and Afrikaners as decolonizing it.
    • It wasn't only Africa that was decolonized; the end of empire was also a process of decolonialization.
 
 
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