expansionist
ik span shuh nist
- a of or involving or guided by expansionism
- Today, some 20 years after his death, his theories are a prime influence on the world's free economies, especially on America's, the richest and most expansionist.
- Angarrack had been taught that Athelstan was an expansionist tyrant, and that Cornwall became part of England only after centuries of strife.
- Things were not great at home, but he had these expansionist ambitions.