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  • noun Plural form of coloniser.

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Examples

  • English, the neutral language that we have adopted by our colonisers is what binds Singaporeans of different races together.

    Global Voices in English » Singapore: Beauty Queen’s qualifications questioned 2009

  • One of the purposes of Bantustans for the colonisers is to discredit the barracked natives as violent and incapable of self-government. danceswithgoats Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Hamastan 2007

  • The possibility that British eagle owls are natural colonisers is therefore worthy of consideration and needs more investigation.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Speaking about "intellectual racism" and theories of racial superiority, he said that when he was a child he and his friends had read books and watched films made by "colonisers", including

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Should the "colonisers" lose control of Nepad, will they continue to support it?

    IOL: News 2010

  • Should the "colonisers" lose control of Nepad, will they continue to support it?

    IOL: News 2010

  • Should the "colonisers" lose control of Nepad, will they continue to support it?

    IOL: News 2010

  • Should the "colonisers" lose control of Nepad, will they continue to support it?

    IOL: News 2010

  • Indeed, no a priori predictions relating to climate change, such as colonisers being small and/or originating in nearby arid shrublands, were upheld.

    Watts Up With That? Willis Eschenbach 2010

  • President Omar Hassan al-Bashir vowed to confront Western "colonisers" as he addressed the gathering of Rizeigat tribespeople - a group including clans that have produced some of the fiercest pro-government militias in the Darfur conflict.

    unknown title 2009

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