neo-colony

See also: neocolony

English

Alternative forms

• neocolony

Etymology

From 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.

Translations

country

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: uussiirtomaa
• French: néocolonie f
• Georgian: ნეოკოლონია (neoḳolonia)
• Spanish: neocolonia