Self-colonize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Self-colonize is a verb meaning To be introduced into an ecosystem through natural processes, as opposed to deliberate introduction by people.
Meaning
To be introduced into an ecosystem through natural processes, as opposed to deliberate introduction by people.
More Meanings
- To regain power (by indigenous people) after having been under colonial rule by another country, typically with the adoption of some of the culture of the former colonizers.
Example Sentences
Cordgrass will be planted, not left to self-colonize.
If not, expect an abundance of weeds, by which we mean invasive and nonnative species that self- colonize.
Nazi-era Schlager are thus reappropriated as part of the FRG after 1989 and help to self-colonize the previously alien(ated) nation of Germany for the Germans.
The legacy of colonialism continues and expands to include those who self-colonize thereby reaffirming Weber's caricatures and uncritical idealisations of Westernisation and law or even to idealisations of Islamic law.
Word Forms
- self-colonizes
- self-colonizing
- self-colonized
- self-colonise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-colonise, recolonize, colonize, colonialize, indigenize, neo-colonize.
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