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English
Etymology
From neo- + colony.
Noun
neo-colony (plural neo-colonies)
- 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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