Definition of Decolonisation

1. Noun. The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

Exact synonyms: Decolonization
Generic synonyms: Group Action
Derivative terms: Decolonise, Decolonize

Definition of Decolonisation

1. Noun. alternative spelling of decolonization ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolonisation

decoletage
decollate
decollated
decollates
decollating
decollation
decollations
decollator
decollement
decolletage
decolletages
decollete
decolletes
decologies
decology
decolonisation
decolonisations
decolonise
decolonised
decolonises
decolonising
decolonization
decolonizations
decolonize
decolonized
decolonizes
decolonizing
decolor
decolorant
decolorants

Literary usage of Decolonisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shifting African Identities by S. B. Bekker, Martine Dodds, Meshack M. Khosa (2001)
"obvious: that the agenda of the Liberation Struggle has not been fully realised and that decolonisation in Southern Africa has to be viewed not as the ..."

2. Reform and Growth in Africa by Jorge Braga de Macedo, African Development Bank, Omar Kabbaj (2000)
"That continent is still marked by the decolonisation process and its ... The decolonisation process is still being felt; the disengagement of the ..."

3. Experimental Pharmacology. A Hand-book of Methods for Studying the by Ludimar Hermann, Robert Meade Smith (1883)
"... or complete decolonisation or solution. The latter two processes, of which the first may, for example, be produced by water, and the second by ether, ..."

4. Causes of International Migration: Proceedings of a Workshop Luxembourg, 14 edited by Bob Vandererf, Liesbeth Heering (1996)
"Decolonisation in Africa and Asia served to enlarge the international system of formally ... The decolonisation process itself was in some places violent, ..."

5. Transactions of the British Congress on Tuberculosis for the Prevention of by H Tim Bulstrode, Hect Mackenzie, J J Perkins (1902)
"In such cases the subsequent treatment by sulphite will be found to lead to decolonisation within one and a half hours, whereas if anilin water has been ..."

6. La intossicazione chinica e l'infezione malarica by Salvatore Tomaselli, William Sydney Thayer (1897)
"... in the forms of crenation, spiculation, or partial decolonisation, though not infrequently full-grown forms may be seen in quite unaltered corpuscles. ..."

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