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  • noun Alternative spelling of recolonize.

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Examples

  • Mugabe has often accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of harbouring plans to "recolonise" Zimbabwe by using the opposition

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • The long-serving president has often accused Blair of harbouring plans to "recolonise" Zimbabwe - which as Rhodesia was a British colony until 1980 - by using the opposition Movement for

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • At a recent AU summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Gaddafi cited the ICC's indictment of al-Bashir as indicative of a "new world terrorism" and a desire by the European powers to "recolonise" their former spheres of influence.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • Hazel was one of the first trees to recolonise Britain after the last ice age, so they can they can tolerate a nip in the air.

    Plantwatch: Flowers brave the freezing weather 2011

  • Even when they returned in the 1950s to recolonise old haunts, their small numbers remained under threat, especially from postwar pesticides such as DDT.But now the osprey's tenacity gives real encouragment to environmentalists.

    Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate 2011

  • Mark Parsons, head of moth conservation for Butterfly Conservation, said: "This moth appears to have been making an attempt to recolonise these shores, possibly as a result of more favourable overall weather conditions through climate change."

    Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in 2011

  • This moth appears to have been making an attempt to recolonise these shores, possibly as a result of more favourable overall weather conditions through climate change, Parsons said.

    Heatwave brings rare moths to UK 2011

  • Scientists have identified the first humans to recolonise Britain after the last ice age.

    Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010

  • The then Aust Gvt supported the Indonesian independence movement against Dutch moves to recolonise the archipelago.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » The only good martyr is a dead martyr. 2009

  • If a major infection kills off the "friendly bacteria" in your gut - the ones you rely on to digest your food - the bacteria in your appendix will come and recolonise you and restore normal service.

    amuchmoreexotic: Upsetting insights amuchmoreexotic 2007

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