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BANANA REPUBLIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("banana republic" is a kind of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
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