nonexpansion

English

Alternative forms
  • non-expansion

Etymology

non- +‎ expansion

Noun

nonexpansion (uncountable)

  1. Absence of expansion.
  2. (politics) Refusing to expand; abstaining from expansion. [19th c.]
    • 1998, Louise Young, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism‎, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:
      The resulting nonexpansion policy (fukakudai hōshin), embodied in the September 24 “First Official Statement,” clearly set forth government opposition to a full-scale occupation of Manchuria and to any further military action.
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