Synonyms for colonization
col·o·niza·tion

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1. colonization, colonisation, settlementnoun

   the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

   "the British colonization of America"

   Synonyms:
   village, closure, settlement, small town, resolution, liquidation, colonisation, colony

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1. • Establishment

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1. List of paraphrases for "colonization":

   colonisation, settlement, colonialism, decolonization, colonizing, colonial

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1. Pak Fakir:

   The root cause of our problem is colonization, and this has never been touched upon in past talks.

2. Karen Diver:

   This is treaty area for the Fond du Lac Band( of Lake Superior Chippewa). And, once again, we are going to bear the brunt of colonization, these will be new colonizers coming to the area, but it's going to because they're going to come here for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that Tribal people have done.

3. Bill Maher:

   The Jews has been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the earth. ... I mean, Jerusalem was their capital. So if it's who got there first, it's not even close, the Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody ; the Romans took over at some point and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans. So yes, there was colonization going on there. Beginning in the 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country. There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country.

4. Antoine Mubidiki:

   My feeling is that we should start having good Congolese-Belgium relations again, like before, despite what the Belgians did to us during colonization, we are ready to forgive.

5. Allison LaPlante:

   Invasive species ruin aquatic communities and their ecosystems, the EPA appeared to the take the path of least resistance by adopting an existing international standard that is inadequate to prevent their colonization.