The practice of obtaining more power, responsibility or staff within an organisation for the purpose of self-aggrandisement.

(historical, geography) An empire in Europe; The empire of the Huns, established as a unified force by Oktar and ending with Attila, all within the mid-5th century CE, out of the Hun Confederation's pre-existing tribal confederation High Kingship, which survived the end of empire.

(formal, history) An Imperial Japanese collaborationist state active from 1934 to 1945.

(historical) Of timber and other produce, grown in the British Empire and imported into Britain.

(historical) Empire that historically spanned the geographical area of present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea from 1270 to 1974.

(historical) A European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region from 1611 to 1721.

(historical) The Korean state from 1897 to 1910.

A nickname for New York City.

(historical) An alliance of three Nahua altepetl city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan.

(historical) The first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.