"banana republic" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-banana republic.ogg [Australia] Forms: banana republics [plural]
Etymology: Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras. Etymology templates: {{coin|en|O. Henry|in=1901|nat=American|nobycat=1|occ=author}} Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 Head templates: {{en-noun}} banana republic (plural banana republics)
  1. (politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government. Tags: derogatory, idiomatic Categories (topical): Corruption, Forms of government, Politics Translations (country): piesangrepubliek (Afrikaans), جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ (jumhūriyyat al-mawzi) [feminine] (Arabic), ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն (adamatʻzenu hanrapetutʻyun) (Armenian), banan respublikası (Azerbaijani), banana errepublika (Basque), republik ar bananez [feminine] (Breton), бананова република (bananova republika) [feminine] (Bulgarian), república bananera [feminine] (Catalan), کۆمارا مووزان (komara mûzan) (Central Kurdish), 香蕉共和國 (Chinese Mandarin), 香蕉共和国 (xiāngjiāo gònghéguó) (Chinese Mandarin), banánová republika [feminine] (Czech), bananrepublik [common-gender] (Danish), bananstat [common-gender] (Danish), bananenrepubliek [masculine] (Dutch), bananrespubliko (Esperanto), banaanivabariik (Estonian), banaanivaltio (Finnish), banaanitasavalta (Finnish), république bananière [feminine] (French), república bananeira [feminine] (Galician), ბანანის რესპუბლიკა (bananis resṗubliḳa) (Georgian), Bananenrepublik [feminine] (German), μπανανία (bananía) [feminine] (Greek), רֶפּוּבְּלִיקַת בָּנָנוֹת (repúblikat banánot) [feminine] (Hebrew), banánköztársaság (Hungarian), bananalýðveldi [neuter] (Icelandic), republik pisang (Indonesian), repubblica delle banane [feminine] (Italian), バナナ共和国 (banana kyōwakoku) (alt: バナナきょうわこく) (Japanese), 바나나 공화국 (english: banana gonghwaguk) (Korean), banānu republika [feminine] (Latvian), bananinė respublika [feminine] (Lithuanian), банана република (english: banana republika) [feminine] (Macedonian), банана-држава (banana-država) (Macedonian), fanjakan' i Baroa (Malagasy), fanjakana baroa (Malagasy), republik pisang (Malay), komara mûzan (Northern Kurdish), bananrepublikk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bananrepublikk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), جمهوری موزی (jomhuri muzi) (Persian), republika bananowa [feminine] (Polish), república das bananas [feminine] (Portuguese), republică bananieră [feminine] (Romanian), бана́новая респу́блика (banánovaja respúblika) [feminine] (Russian), бана́на репу̀блика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), бана́на-др̀жава [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), banána repùblika [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), banána-dr̀žava [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), banánová republika [feminine] (Slovak), bananska republika [feminine] (Slovene), banana republika [feminine] (Slovene), república bananera [feminine] (Spanish), bananrepublik [common-gender] (Swedish), банан республикасы (banan respublikası) (Tatar), สาธารณรัฐกล้วย (Thai), muz cumhuriyeti (Turkish), бананова республіка (bananova respublika) [feminine] (Ukrainian), جمہوریہ کیلا (Urdu), cộng hòa chuối (Vietnamese), gweriniaeth fanana [feminine] (Welsh), bananerepublyk [common-gender] (West Frisian)

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      "expansion": "Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901",
      "name": "coin"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional \"Anchuria\", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "banana republics",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "banana republic (plural banana republics)",
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "English coinages",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Serbo-Croatian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes",
        "Urdu terms with redundant script codes",
        "en:Corruption",
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        "en:Politics"
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        {
          "ref": "1901 May 2, O. Henry, “Money Maze”, in Ainslee's Magazine, volume vii, number 4, New York, page 305",
          "text": "At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, University of Pittsburgh Press, page 117",
          "text": "The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 10, Marcel Berlins, “Media have rushed to judge Portuguese police”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The McCanns, it is hinted and sometimes expressed explicitly, cannot possibly be treated fairly under this inadequate Portuguese system. There is a touch of arrogant xenophobia here, as if Portugal was some backward banana republic […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government."
      ],
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          "politics",
          "politics"
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "country",
          "country"
        ],
        [
          "Central America",
          "Central America"
        ],
        [
          "West Indies",
          "West Indies"
        ],
        [
          "export",
          "export"
        ],
        [
          "commodity",
          "commodity"
        ],
        [
          "banana",
          "banana"
        ],
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ],
        [
          "dictatorial",
          "dictatorial"
        ],
        [
          "government",
          "government"
        ]
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        "(politics, idiomatic, derogatory) A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
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        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "piesangrepubliek"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "jumhūriyyat al-mawzi",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "adamatʻzenu hanrapetutʻyun",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banan respublikası"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banana errepublika"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "republik ar bananez"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bananova republika",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бананова република"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "república bananera"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "香蕉共和國"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiāngjiāo gònghéguó",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "香蕉共和国"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banánová republika"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bananrepublik"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bananstat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bananenrepubliek"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "bananrespubliko"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banaanivabariik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banaanivaltio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banaanitasavalta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "république bananière"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "república bananeira"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "bananis resṗubliḳa",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "ბანანის რესპუბლიკა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bananenrepublik"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "bananía",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μπανανία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "repúblikat banánot",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "רֶפּוּבְּלִיקַת בָּנָנוֹת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "banánköztársaság"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bananalýðveldi"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "republik pisang"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "repubblica delle banane"
    },
    {
      "alt": "バナナきょうわこく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "banana kyōwakoku",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "バナナ共和国"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "banana gonghwaguk",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "바나나 공화국"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "komara mûzan",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "کۆمارا مووزان"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "komara mûzan"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banānu republika"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bananinė respublika"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "english": "banana republika",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "банана република"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "banana-država",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "банана-држава"
    },
    {
      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "fanjakan' i Baroa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "fanjakana baroa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "republik pisang"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bananrepublikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bananrepublikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jomhuri muzi",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "جمهوری موزی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "republika bananowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "república das bananas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "republică bananieră"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "banánovaja respúblika",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бана́новая респу́блика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бана́на репу̀блика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бана́на-др̀жава"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banána repùblika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banána-dr̀žava"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banánová republika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bananska republika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banana republika"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "república bananera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bananrepublik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "banan respublikası",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "банан республикасы"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "สาธารณรัฐกล้วย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "muz cumhuriyeti"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bananova respublika",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бананова республіка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "جمہوریہ کیلا"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "country",
      "word": "cộng hòa chuối"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gweriniaeth fanana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "country",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bananerepublyk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "banana republic"
}

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