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neo-colonies

neo-colonies is the plural of neo-colony.

Meaning of neo-colony

Noun

neo-colony (plural neo-colonies)

  1. A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
    • Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 201

Questions about neo-colonies

What is neo-colonies the plural of?
Neo-colonies is the plural of neo-colony.

Words near neo-colonies in the dictionary

  1. neo-Christian
  2. neo-Christianity
  3. neo-Christians
  4. neo-classical
  5. neo-classical compound
  6. neo-colonies
  7. neo-colonisation
  8. neo-colonise
  9. neo-colonised
  10. neo-colonises
  11. neo-colonising

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