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"ref": "1901 May 20, 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.",
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"ref": "2001, Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, 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.",
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"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 […]",
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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."
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "country",
"word": "piesangrepubliek"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jumhūriyyat al-mawzi",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "adamatʻzenu hanrapetutʻyun",
"sense": "country",
"word": "ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն"
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "country",
"word": "banan respublikası"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "country",
"word": "banana errepublika"
},
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"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "country",
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"feminine"
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"word": "republik ar bananez"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bananova republika",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "бананова република"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "república bananera"
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{
"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"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"word": "banánová republika"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "country",
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"word": "bananrepublik"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
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"sense": "country",
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"word": "bananenrepubliek"
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"word": "bananrespubliko"
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"sense": "country",
"word": "banaanivabariik"
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"sense": "country",
"word": "banaanivaltio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "country",
"word": "banaanitasavalta"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"word": "république bananière"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "república bananeira"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bananis resṗubliḳa",
"sense": "country",
"word": "ბანანის რესპუბლიკა"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"word": "Bananenrepublik"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "bananía",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μπανανία"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "repúblikat banánot",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "רֶפּוּבְּלִיקַת בָּנָנוֹת"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "country",
"word": "banánköztársaság"
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"word": "bananalýðveldi"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "country",
"word": "republik pisang"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "repubblica delle banane"
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"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"
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"code": "ko",
"english": "banana gonghwaguk",
"lang": "Korean",
"sense": "country",
"word": "바나나 공화국"
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "komara mûzan",
"sense": "country",
"word": "کۆمارا مووزان"
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"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "country",
"word": "komara mûzan"
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"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"word": "banānu republika"
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"english": "banana republika",
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"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "банана република"
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"roman": "banana-država",
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"word": "банана-држава"
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"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "country",
"word": "fanjakan' i Baroa"
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"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "country",
"word": "fanjakana baroa"
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "country",
"word": "republik pisang"
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"sense": "country",
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"word": "bananrepublikk"
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"word": "bananrepublikk"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jomhuri muzi",
"sense": "country",
"word": "جمهوری موزی"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "country",
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"word": "republika bananowa"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "república das bananas"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "republică bananieră"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "banánovaja respúblika",
"sense": "country",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "бана́новая респу́блика"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "бана́на репу̀блика"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country",
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"feminine"
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"word": "бана́на-др̀жава"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country",
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"word": "banána repùblika"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "banána-dr̀žava"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "banánová republika"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bananska republika"
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{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "banana republika"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "república bananera"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "bananrepublik"
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{
"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"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bananova respublika",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "бананова республіка"
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{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "country",
"word": "جمہوریہ کیلا"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "country",
"word": "cộng hoà chuối"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "country",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "gweriniaeth fanana"
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"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "country",
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"word": "bananerepublyk"
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"word": "banana republic"
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