empire-building
Noun
Meaning
empire-building (uncountable)
The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility or staff within an organisation for the purpose of self-aggrandisement.
Alternative names
empire building
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Examples
As the Ottoman Empire was steadily expelled from Europe Pan-Turanist adherents proposed a new empire-building project - this time eastwards to Azerbaijan and beyond the Caspian to incorporate what was regarded as essentially Turkish Central Asia.
During the waves of colonization in the first half of the 20th century, the great empire-building powers unilaterally drafted charters for their colonies or simply forced them to adopt their colonizers' constitutions.
The late 19th century was the heyday of Western empire-building.
The tune was hatched as the “Anacreontic Song” in eighteenth-century England: a drinking song for empire-building elites.
The best MCU movies do a good job of distracting you from all the setting-up of future franchise entries; this one offers so much empire-building that it might as well have a “Pardon Our Dust” sign on it.