expansionistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

expansionist (comparative more expansionist, superlative most expansionist)

1. (politics) Of or pertaining to expansionism.
   • 2021 August 11, Industry Insider, “Rail ambitions in Wales”, in RAIL, number 937, page 68:

     Unlike passenger demand forecasts in England, that have resulted in the removal of 20% of service capacity in the May 2022 timetable, Welsh Ministers acting through the TfW agency are continuing an expansionist agenda for rail services under their control.

   • 2025 September 16, “Can democracy survive without America?”, in The Hankyoreh‎, archived from the original on 6 November 2025:

     Lindberg says that current phenomena are reminiscent of the 1930s, right before the expansionist ambitions of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sparked a world war.

同意語

• expansionistic

名詞

expansionist (plural expansionists)

1. (international relations) An advocate of expansionism.
   • 1982 November 21, Richard E. Welch Jr., “IMPERIAL ADVENTURE”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 4 February 2019:

     Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.

参照

• “expansionist”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.