Colonization

Noun

 * 1) The process of establishing a colony.

Thesaurus
absentee voting, adoption, anchorage, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, ballot-box stuffing, card voting, conquest, cumulative system, cumulative voting, election fraud, empeoplement, enslavement, establishment, fixation, floating, foundation, inauguration, indent, inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, list system, lodgment, mooring, occupation, peoplement, peopling, plantation, plural system, population, preemption, preferential system, preferential voting, preoccupation, prepossession, proportional representation, proxy voting, repeating, requisition, settlement, settling, single system, single transferrable vote, single-member district, subjugation, takeover, taking over, usurpation, vote, voting, voting machine

Alternative forms

 * (mostly British) colonisation

Related terms

 * colonialism