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   colonizer

   /ˈkɒlənʌɪzə/

   noun

   • 1. a country that sends settlers to a place and establishes political control over it: "Portugal was a major colonizer in both Brazil and parts of Africa"
   • ▪ a person who settles among and establishes political control over the indigenous people of an area: "they are among the few indigenous groups who were never converted to Catholicism by Spanish colonizers"
   • 2. a plant or animal that establishes itself in an area: "oysters and barnacles tend to be among the first colonizers of new spaces in the marine world"

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