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)

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Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("banana republic" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

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