crown colony

noun

often capitalized both Cs

: a British colony over which the Crown retains some control

Examples of crown colony in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The idea for an arts enclave emerged around 1997, around the same time that the former British crown colony was handed back to China. —

Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2024 Moya's homeland had once been a crown colony called Southern Rhodesia where, for more than half a century, the white colonial ruling class enriched itself at the expense of the Black majority. —

Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022 In 1960, Britain ceded control of the crown colony of Cyprus. —

BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2020 Scholars today believe that the unsigned letter was likely written by John Allan, an influential merchant and politician in Nova Scotia—today, one of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, but then a crown colony. —

John Hanc, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017

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