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Colonise meaning
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
Synonyms of Colonise
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Despite their adventurous spirit, the Vikings did not colonise North America like later European explorers.
And the US empire’s insatiable greed and determination to colonise every last inch of the planet, if only with our waste products, is gradually killing the life-systems we depend on.
A sovereign nation is a sovereign nation, nobody can re-colonise us.
Animation reveals how humans could colonise the Milky Way.
Each subsequently-settled planet can then, after 2 million years, launch three settler ships that can only colonise a single planet.
Assuming some took place before non-Africans split up to colonise all of Eurasia, it must have started over 50,000 years ago, he said.
It contradicts his illegal initiative to colonise peoples’ landed for the purposes of using public fund to set up cattle colonies.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the solutions being proposed by his government to quell frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers is not ill-informed nor to colonise any part of the country as being widely suggested.
The digital giant is spending billions on big budget dramas and sports rights to colonise the living room with Amazon Prime Video.
A friend of Warner's then suggested that he should instead try to colonise one of the islands in the Lesser Antilles because of their more favourable conditions.
After the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, the East India Company received a royal charter giving it the sole right to fortify and colonise the island.
Also around this period, the mercantile Stroganov family established a firm foothold at the Urals and recruited Russian Cossacks to colonise Siberia.
As a result, Caribs and Arawaks were able to colonise much of South America and the Caribbean Islands.
Cosmists will foresee the massive, truly astronomical potential of substrate-independent cognition, and will therefore advocate unlimited growth in the designated fields, in the hopes that "super intelligent" machines might one day colonise the universe.
Darwin discussed ways that species could be dispersed across oceans to colonise islands, many of which he had investigated experimentally.
In 1657, Oliver Cromwell citation granted the English East India Company a charter to govern Saint Helena and, the following year, the company decided to fortify the island and colonise it with planters.
Organisms colonise and break down organic materials, making available nutrients upon which other plants and animals can live.
Other species and vegetation communities found on subantarctic islands north of the Antarctic Convergence now absent from the Heard Island flora may colonise the island if climate change produces more favourable conditions.
Termites and ants can re-colonise untilled land that contains crop stubble, which colonies use for nourishment when they establish their nests.
The hypothesized departure of humankind from Africa to colonise the rest of the world involved them crossing the Straits of Bab el Mandab in the southern Red Sea and moving along the green coastlines around Arabia and thence to the rest of Eurasia.