neo-colony

See also: neocolony

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Etymology

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.
    • 1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 201:
      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.

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