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banana republic
Word definitions for banana republic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small Central American state with an economy dependent on banana production," 1901, American English.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Banana republic or banana state is a political science term for politically unstable countries in Latin America whose economies are largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas . It typically has stratified social classes , including ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The guy has more titles than the leader of a banana republic . ▪ This is proof of the erosive effects of past inflation rate which climbed to banana republic levels in the 1970s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context politics idiomatic pejorative English) 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.
Usage examples of banana republic.
Were it not for his porkpie hat, he might have been an officer in a banana republic air force.
What could Hispania, a banana republic no larger than Rhode Island, with a gross national product so small that most of its inhabitants lived hi jungle huts-what could Hispania do to America?
The unfortunate woman, who was sitting on the John at the time and reading the current Banana Republic catalogue, was torn to pieces.
Cordelia scrubbed sweat from her forehead with the strip of fabric she had carefully torn away from the hem of her Banana Republic skirt.
He was in one of his Banana Republic safari suits, a mug of coffee in his hand, grinning ear to ear as Adrienne threw some remark over her shoulder.
Here in the early years of the new millennium, on a state level and in too many local jurisdictions, corruption had attained a degree of rot seldom seen outside a banana republic, though in this case a banana republic without bananas and with pretensions to glamour.