empire-building

Word family nounempire-buildingempire

ˈempire-ˌbuilding noun [uncountableU]

attempts to get more power within the organization you work for 〔在组织内的〕权力扩张

Examples from the Corpus

empire-building• Together, they point to aggressive empire-building by the duke in the north.• Any change in the boundaries of authority should be the result of conscious planning, and not surreptitious empire-building.• Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.• All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries.

词汇	empire-building
释义	empire-building Word family nounempire-buildingempire ˈempire-ˌbuilding noun [uncountableU] attempts to get more power within the organization you work for 〔在组织内的〕权力扩张 Examples from the Corpus empire-building• Together, they point to aggressive empire-building by the duke in the north.• Any change in the boundaries of authority should be the result of conscious planning, and not surreptitious empire-building.• Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.• All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries.
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