: opposition to or hostility toward imperialism
… he campaigned on a platform of anti-imperialism …—
T. E. Vedney
T. E. Vedney
anti-imperialist
adjective
ˌan-tē-im-ˈpir-ē-ə-list
ˌan-tī-
Carnegie wasted no time making public his anti-imperialist sentiments.
—David Nasaw
David Nasaw
anti-imperialist
noun
He gravely damaged his reputation among pacifists and anti-imperialists by his attack on Egypt in 1882 …
—Geoffrey Wheatcrof
Geoffrey Wheatcrof
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The Islamist takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 helped end leftist student activism in Iran as religious forces appropriated the mantle of anti-imperialism and the anti-American cause from the left.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
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First Known Use
1861, in the meaning defined above
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