colonization
/ˌkɒlənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area: Africa boasts a tradition of higher education institutions that predate Western colonization the European invasion and colonization of the Americas...
- For Dickens, the civilizing mission of imperialism meant European colonization.
- European colonization characterizes 19th-century maps.
- This is due mostly to the bitter resentment over Japan's colonization of Korea.
1.1The action of appropriating a place or domain for one’s own use: the complete colonization of television entertainment by reality shows...
- His anxiety mirrored Marcuse's grim assessment of technology's colonization of everyday life.
- They're against fundamentalism, Coca-Cola colonization, pornography, and Sigmund Freud.
- The greatest danger to that is the colonization of thinking.
1.2 Ecology The action by a plant or animal of establishing itself in an area: lower airway bacterial colonization suitable sites for colonization by Asian crabs...
- Their job is to destroy unstable planets in order to make star systems safe for human colonization.
- Spreading from the ports, Formosan termites began a subterranean colonization of the country.
- The vaccine was effective at reducing colonization of E. coli at the terminal rectum of cattle.