Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Given to emigration and the founding of colonies in new countries: as, the British are a colonizing people. Also colonising.

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  • verb Present participle of colonize.

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Examples

  • Investigators said the southern-based mob had succeeded in what they call colonizing Lombardy, thanks to its infiltration of the political and business environment.

    Italian Police Arrest Hundreds In Anti-Mafia Raids 2010

  • Second, Red Colony is a site for people interested in colonizing and/or terraforming Mars.

    August 2005 2005

  • Second, Red Colony is a site for people interested in colonizing and/or terraforming Mars.

    Chasing Mars 2005

  • In another article we will spend more time with the early Spaniards, the Jesuits and Franciscans who were instrumental in colonizing California.

    Mazatlan, a European city 2000

  • In another article we will spend more time with the early Spaniards, the Jesuits and Franciscans who were instrumental in colonizing California.

    Mazatlan, a European city 2000

  • Previous failures in colonizing these provinces have their roots in the fact that no special notice has been taken of the special character of the lands to be settled.

    Canada At The Cross Roads 1926

  • While the Spanish were trying to manage the immediate aftermath of a crisis, they were also trying to cultivate reliable Tule partners for the long-term colonizing project in eastern Panamá.

    The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari 2001

  • [2] The aim of the society was to establish a model agricultural settlement in Palestine and to carry on a wide-spread propaganda for the idea of colonizing the ancient homeland of the Jews.

    History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

  • Maybe you, too, have heard or read that he was not an Abolitionist; that he fought the war to preserve the Union, not to free the slaves; that his Emancipation Proclamation was of very limited value since it applied only to slaves behind Union lines; that he entertained the idea of colonizing Africa with freed slaves; and that he was racist on the issue of social equality between the races.

    The American Spectator James M. Thunder 2010

  • Maybe you, too, have heard or read that he was not an Abolitionist; that he fought the war to preserve the Union, not to free the slaves; that his Emancipation Proclamation was of very limited value since it applied only to slaves behind Union lines; that he entertained the idea of colonizing Africa with freed slaves; and that he was racist on the issue of social equality between the races.

    Spero News author unknown 2010

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