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neocolony

neocolony is the alternative form 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

Forms of neocolony

pluralneocolonies

Questions about neocolony

What is neocolony the alternative form of?
Neocolony is the alternative form of neo-colony.

Words near neocolony in the dictionary

  1. neocolonization
  2. neocolonize
  3. neocolonized
  4. neocolonizes
  5. neocolonizing
  6. neocolony
  7. Neocomian
  8. neocommunism
  9. neocommunist
  10. neocommunistic
  11. neocommunists

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