Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun neocolonialism

1 sense of neocolonialism

Sense 1
neocolonialism -- (control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures)
       => colonialism -- (exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country)