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Definition of "decolonization" [decolonization]

  • The freeing of a colony etc from dependent status by granting it independence (noun)

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Use "decolonization" in a sentence
  • "Though decolonization is almost complete, we should not overlook the United Nations 'very respectable record in this process, particularly in making it less violent than it might have been."
  • "I’ve been reading Robert Meredith’s book on The Fate of Africa lately, and one striking thing about the section on decolonization from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s was precisely the extent to which in many circumstances the imperial powers were looking for an exit strategy."
  • "The Chinese revolution had to await, among other things, the crisis if imperialism and the Second World War, the overall process of decolonization - in other words, the simultaneity of the anticolonial revolutions - in order to finally take control of state power."