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  • adjective Of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism

Etymologies

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neo- +‎ colonial

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Examples

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    Obama's Problem With Business 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    Obama's Problem With Business 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    Obama's Problem With Business 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • Is it because of a kind of neocolonial occupation?

    Nicolas Rossier: An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Nicolas Rossier 2010

  • Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.

    How Obama Thinks 2010

  • What compounded this sentiment is that most of the governments that pile on to condemn Israel and the so-called "neocolonial" West have terrible human-rights records.

    Tyrants Get Another U.N. Platform 2009

  • Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler, opposed Zimbabwe's plans to confiscate land owned by the descendants of colonial era British settlers out of a desire to perpetuate its "neocolonial" interests in Africa, Mugabe said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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