ADJ
- big, great, large, mighty, vast
- colonial, overseas
- the decline of the old colonial empires
VERB + EMPIRE
- establish, found
- dismantle
- The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled
- expand
- lose
- By now Britain had lost its empire
EMPIRE + VERB
- grow
- collapse, crumble, disintegrate
- The mighty empire finally crumbled
PHRASES
- the break-up/decline/fall of an empire, part of an empire
- a country that is still part of the empire
ADJ
- big, huge, large
- little (= used to criticize sb's attitude to the things they control)
- All the bureaucrats jealously guarded their own little empires
- business, commercial, financial, industrial, media
VERB + EMPIRE
- build (up), create
- He has built a huge business empire from humble beginnings
PHRASES
- the collapse of an empire
