empire

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I think that the crisis of the empire is a crisis of all the capitalist states in the empire, so there isn't a relative loss of American power.

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  1. noun A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  2. noun The territory included in such a unit.
  3. noun An extensive enterprise under a unified authority: a publishing empire.
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  • I think that the crisis of the empire is a crisis of all the capitalist states in the empire, so there isn't a relative loss of American power. —  Indybay newswire
  • The grim forces at the edge of the empire will be along in due course, spears in hand. —  Mesopotamia West
  • Within the empire was a vast underclass of workers, freedmen, slaves and peasants whose exploited labor was lived off of by a ruling class of landed aristocrats and merchants. —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • It should always be clear whether pirates or an enemy empire are attacking you. —  a sibilant intake of breath
  • He maintained that if a city once recovered for the empire was abandoned the moral result would be disastrous. —  Ravenna, a Study
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imperium, from imperāre, to command; see emperor.

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  1. from Middle English empire, empyre, empere (also emperie, emperye: see empery), from Old French empire (also emperie), French empire = Provencal emperi, enperi = Spanish Portuguese Italian imperio, from Latin imperium, inperium, command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire, from imperare, inperare, command, order, from in, in, on, + parare, make ready, order: see pare. Cf. imperial, etc.
 

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