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My understanding is that colonialism involves settlement, whereas imperialism remains purely extractive.
Another way you could put it, is that imperialism is extraction/theft of the land labor, and natural resources of a weaker country by a stronger one, while colonialism is a tactic or strategy to carry out the above, by establishing colonies / bases of power inside the attacked country.