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NARCO-STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent
Example:
this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("narco-state" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
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