self-colonise

English

Verb

self-colonise (third-person singular simple present self-colonises, present participle self-colonising, simple past and past participle self-colonised)

Alternative form of self-colonize
1. To regain power after being colonized.
  - 2011, Ridwanul Hoque, Judicial Activism in Bangladesh: A Golden Mean Approach, →ISBN, page 95:
    Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.
  - 2014, Irene Watson, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law, →ISBN:
    And it is imposed on us by the same Ngarrindjeri who themselves were once the colonised. The processes of colonialism in the end become self-colonising.
  - 2016, Le-Ha Phan, Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’, →ISBN:
    They did not apologise for being Asian; in other words, they did not seem to be self-colonised.
2. To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes.
  - 2004, The Garden - Volume 129, page 670:
    Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.
  - 2009, Geoffrey Richard Clark, Atholl Anderson, The Early Prehistory of Fiji, →ISBN, page 43:
    The presence of suitable rodent prey introduced by people presumably at or near colonisation about 3000 years ago (Anderson and Clark, 1999; White et al. 2000) was probably the prerequisite that allowed barn owls, which are specialist predators of small mammals and specifically rodents, to self-colonise, presumably from the Solomon Islands.
  - 2015, Douglas Waterford, 21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture, →ISBN, page 99:
    The original idea was to allow the roofs to self-colonise with plants, but they are sometimes seeded to increase their bio-diversity potential in the short term.