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banana republic (plural banana republics)

1. (politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.

   Hypernym: kleptocracy

   Near-synonym: republiqueta

   • 1901 May, O. Henry, “Money Maze”, in Ainslee's Magazine‎, volume vii, number 4, New York, page 305:

     At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.

   • 2001, Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 117:

     The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.

   • 2007 September 10, Marcel Berlins, “Media have rushed to judge Portuguese police”, in The Guardian‎:

     The McCanns, it is hinted and sometimes expressed explicitly, cannot possibly be treated fairly under this inadequate Portuguese system. There is a touch of arrogant xenophobia here, as if Portugal was some backward banana republic […]

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• banana republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia