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petrostates

petrostates is the plural of petrostate.

Meaning of petrostate

Noun

petrostate (plural petrostates)

  1. A state whose wealth stems from the sale of oil.
    • Under subsequent democratic regimes, as we shall see, some of these features of the petrostate were to change, while others were intensified.1997, Fernando Coronil, The magical state: nature, money, and modernity in Venezuela

Questions about petrostates

What is petrostates the plural of?
Petrostates is the plural of petrostate.

Words near petrostates in the dictionary

  1. petrosquamosal
  2. petrosquamous
  3. Petrossian
  4. Petrossians
  5. petrostate
  6. petrostates
  7. Petrosyan
  8. petrotectonic
  9. petrothermal
  10. petrotympanic
  11. petrotympanics

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