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Colonization
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Colonization has 1 sense
- colonization(n = noun.act) colonisation, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" is a kind of constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization
has particulars: population
Derived forms verb colonize2, verb colonize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Colonization, n. [Cf. F. colonisation.].
The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. [1913 Webster]
"The wide continent of America invited colonization."
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Colonization
Hare system, PR, absentee voting, adoption, anchorage, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, ballot-box stuffing, card voting, conquest, cumulative system, cumulative voting, election fraud, empeoplement, enslavement, establishment, fixation, floating, foundation, inauguration, indent, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, list system, lodgment, mooring, occupation, peoplement, peopling, plantation, plural system, population, preemption, preferential system, preferential voting, preoccupation, prepossession, proportional representation, proxy voting, repeating, requisition, settlement, settling, single system, single transferrable vote, single-member district, subjugation, takeover, taking over, usurpation, vote, voting, voting machineROGET THESAURUS
Colonization
Location
N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.
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