expansionist

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noun

ex·​pan·​sion·​ist -ch(ə)nə̇st 

plural -s

: one who favors expansionism:

a

: an advocate of an enlarged paper currency

b

: an advocate of territorial expansion

expansionist

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adjective

"

: practicing, advocating, or tending toward expansion

specifically : pressing for a policy of extending a nation's political and economic dominance

we must make it perfectly clear that we are not ourselves expansionist

—H. L. Stimson

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