neocolonialistn.adj.

1959 M. K. Clark Algeria in Turmoil xiii. 74 The fury with which the nationalists denounced the ‘neocolonialists’—European advocates of equalitarian reforms.

1961 Economist 16 Dec. 1113/2 Casuistry worthy of the most devious neo-colonialist.

1989 S. Morgan & P. Righton Childcare (BNC) 55 A third group are the colonialists and the neo-colonialists with experience of colonial societies. They..tend to give the impression that they are ‘experts’ on blacks.

1992 Private Eye 13 Mar. 14/1 Clarke is in essence acting like a little Englander dictator who fancies himself as a neo-colonialist.

1961 Internat. Org. 15 88 The older states had an obligation to assist the newly emerging states in safeguarding their independence from neocolonialist ambitions.

1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 98 Accepting the Indonesian Communist Party's definition of ‘Malaysia’ as a ‘neo-colonialist’ device.

1973 Times 1 Jan. 14/4 One of the black speakers..mentioned Europe in passing as a ‘massive neo-colonialist conspiracy to castrate black men everywhere’.

1987 tr. M. Gorbachev Perestroika ii. v. 171 Nevertheless, the rich Western states continue to collect neo-colonialist ‘tribute’.

1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art v. 146 Ironically, while Todd's position was considered a neocolonialist one in the 1960s, in the 1990s it was reinterpreted by many younger African artists as a form of enlightened ‘internationalism’.