BANANA REPUBLIC as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
   Hypernyms(s) banana republic is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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