Noun
empire-building (uncountable)
The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility or staff within an organisation for the purpose of self-aggrandisement.
empire building
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
The late 19th century was the heyday of Western empire-building. Source: Internet
The tune was hatched as the “Anacreontic Song” in eighteenth-century England: a drinking song for empire-building elites. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet