单词	colonization
释义	colonization /ˌkɒlənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] 1The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area: Africa boasts a tradition of higher education institutions that predate Western colonization the European invasion and colonization of the Americas... For Dickens, the civilizing mission of imperialism meant European colonization. European colonization characterizes 19th-century maps. This is due mostly to the bitter resentment over Japan's colonization of Korea. 1.1The action of appropriating a place or domain for one’s own use: the complete colonization of television entertainment by reality shows... His anxiety mirrored Marcuse's grim assessment of technology's colonization of everyday life. They're against fundamentalism, Coca-Cola colonization, pornography, and Sigmund Freud. The greatest danger to that is the colonization of thinking. 1.2 Ecology The action by a plant or animal of establishing itself in an area: lower airway bacterial colonization suitable sites for colonization by Asian crabs... Their job is to destroy unstable planets in order to make star systems safe for human colonization. Spreading from the ports, Formosan termites began a subterranean colonization of the country. The vaccine was effective at reducing colonization of E. coli at the terminal rectum of cattle.
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