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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