semicolonial

8.1

A foreign country partly controls another country's land and people

adjective
/ˌsɛmɪkoʊˈniːəl/

Formal

: semicolonial

In a semicolonial state, local leaders often collaborate with colonial powers while the population seeks greater autonomy.

Examples

They were subsequently ruled in semicolonial fashion by the Serbian communists, whose discriminatory policies caused perhaps 250,000 Albanians to emigrate from Kosovo.

Academic text (1999)
We were inspired and guided by Mao's class analysis of the semicolonial and semifeudal society.

Blog text (9)
Mao's class analysis of the semicolonial and semifeudal society enabled the Chinese Communist Party to win the people's democratic revolution with the correct program, strategy, and tactics, and proceed to the socialist revolution.

Blog text (9)
The country remains semicolonial, struggling to gain complete independence from foreign influence.
Many regions in the world are still semicolonial, caught between traditional governance and external powers.

How Colonial

imperial

1 7.5

colonial

12 5.5

semicolonial

Formal

8.1

autonomous

51 6.3

Surface Forms

semicolonial positive

Morphology

semicolonial = colonial (transparent) = semi + colony + al

The word is transparently formed by adding semi- to colonial, giving the sense 'partly colonial' or 'partly under colonial influence.'

Etymology

Semicolonial is made of semi- ('half' or 'partly') and colonial from colony ('a place controlled by another country'), so the word names a country that is partly, but not fully, under the control of a foreign power.