OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29633

banana republic

Meanings (ES + gloss)
república bananera
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.
At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.
The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.
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