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How to pronounce decolonization in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms decolonisation
Type of group action
Derivation decolonize

Examples of decolonization

decolonization
Examples of decolonization today are all over Africa like the protest in Libya.
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The PSU was particularly active in the struggle for the decolonization of Algeria.
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I decided to do something for my people, to lead the decolonization of Panama.
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Decolonization allowed the colonizer to disclaim responsibility for the colonized.
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Household members are recommended to follow the same decolonization protocol.
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It was embraced by many national liberation movements during decolonization.
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The construction of a specific Finnish polity is the result of successful decolonization.
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Africa acquired its greatest relative wealth in the 1960s, just prior to decolonization.
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Being born in Algeria before the decolonization changes nothing to that.
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More examples
  • The action of changing from colonial to independent status
  • (decolonize) grant independence to (a former colony); "West Africa was decolonized in the early 1960's"
  • Decolonization (BrE: decolonisation) refers to the undoing of colonialism, the unequal relation of polities whereby one people or nation establishes and maintains dependent territorial governments over another. ...
  • Decolonization is the movement of American/European/Asian colonies gaining independence (mostly beginning after the post-WWII era). Some were peaceful struggles while others became violent.
  • The progressive dismantling of colonial rule around the world.
  • A term referring to the European imperial retreat from sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II and one of the most sudden and momentous transformations in the history of the modern world. ...