Usually means: Seeking to increase territory, influence.
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  1. expansionist: Merriam-Webster
  2. expansionist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expansionist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expansionist: Vocabulary.com
  5. Expansionist, expansionist: Wordnik
  6. expansionist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. expansionist: Wiktionary
  8. expansionist: Dictionary.com
  9. Expansionist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. expansionist: Rhymezone
  11. expansionist: FreeDictionary.org
  12. expansionist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. expansionist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (politics) Of or pertaining to expansionism.
▸ noun:  (international relations) An advocate of expansionism.

Similar:
expansional, expansile, expeditionary, extensional, annexationistic, internationalist, expulsionary, imperialist, invasive, globalist, more...

Opposite:
isolationist, non-interventionist, non-expansionist

Types:
hawkish, dovish, isolationist, realist, idealist, more...

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ardent, most, aggressive, inherently, anti, american, less, great, avowed, enthusiastic, non

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Similar:
expansional, expansile, expeditionary, extensional, annexationistic, internationalist, expulsionary, imperialist, invasive, globalist, more...

Opposite:
isolationist, non-interventionist, non-expansionist

Types:
hawkish, dovish, isolationist, realist, idealist, more...

Adjectives:
ardent, most, aggressive, inherently, anti, american, less, great, avowed, enthusiastic, non

Colors:
    crimson,     gold,     emerald,     burgundy,     charcoal, more...



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