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petro-dictatorship

petro-dictatorship noun: a dictatorship funded by petroleum exports.

Noun

petro-dictatorship (plural petro-dictatorships)

  1. A dictatorship funded by petroleum exports.
    • The development of energy resources in an otherwise underdeveloped economy […] is often accompanied by the rise of corrupt, authoritarian regimes (Witness the petro-dictatorships of Nigeria, Libya[…])1997, Peter Rutland, Lost Opportunities: Energy and Politics in Russia
    • Internationally, what is already the world's most indebted nation is overextended on the military front, highly dependent on OPEC oil and increasingly beholden to sovereign wealth funds run by petro-dictatorships or authoritarian regimes2009, Thomas J. Courchene, The Obama Opportunity: Agent of Change in a Time of Crisis

Forms of petro-dictatorship

pluralpetro-dictatorships

Origin of petro-dictatorship

From petro- + dictatorship.

Words formed from petro-dictatorship

Questions about petro-dictatorship

What does petro-dictatorship mean?
Petro-dictatorship means a dictatorship funded by petroleum exports.
What part of speech is petro-dictatorship?
Petro-dictatorship is a noun.
What is the plural of petro-dictatorship?
The plural of petro-dictatorship is petro-dictatorships.

Words near petro-dictatorship in the dictionary

  1. Petriș
  2. petro
  3. petro-
  4. petro-dictator
  5. petro-dictators
  6. petro-dictatorship
  7. petro-dictatorships
  8. petrobactin
  9. petrobasilar
  10. petroboloi
  11. petrobolos

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