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petro-dictatorship

noun

Etymology

From petro- + dictatorship.

  1. borrowed from dictātor — “a chief magistrate”
  2. formed as dictatorship — “dictator + -ship”
  3. formed as petro-dictatorship — “petro- + dictatorship”

Definitions

  1. A dictatorship funded by petroleum exports.

    • The development of energy resources in an otherwise underdeveloped economy […] is often accompanied by the rise of corrupt, authoritarian regimes (Witness the petro-dictatorships of Nigeria, Libya[…])
    • Internationally, what is already the world's most indebted nation is overextended on the military front, highly dependent on OPEC oil and increasingly beholden to sovereign wealth funds run by petro-dictatorships or authoritarian regimes

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA