nonexpansion
English
Alternative forms
- non-expansion
Etymology
non- + expansion
Adjective
nonexpansion (not comparable)
- (politics) Refusing to expand; abstaining from expansion. [19th c.]
- 1998, Young, Louise, chapter 4, in Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1999, →ISBN, OCLC 1075719454, 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.