NOUN
- a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
How To Use banana republic In A Sentence
- In this sense, those bridges to nowhere are a sort of benevolent inefficiency, a form of waste that, just maybe, keeps us from becoming a banana republic.
- No one is treating the Mexican federal government like a banana republic or a basket case or thinking that the Canadian government would have done so much better.
- The guy has more titles than the leader of a banana republic.
- It has posted four consecutive quarters of declining same-store sales, with overexpansion causing its Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy divisions to cannibalize sales.
- If investors decide that we're a banana republic whose politicians can't or won't come to grips with long-term problems, they will indeed stop buying our debt.
- The mother becomes a drifter, finally offering her life in a revolutionary cataclysm that takes place in a banana republic wholly given over to violence and nihilism.
- The Agency had huge collections of intelligence on banana republics and their leaders.
- No one is treating the Mexican federal government like a banana republic or a basket case or thinking that the Canadian government would have done so much better.
- Before Castro, Cuba was considered something of a banana republic.
- The term banana republic is often used in a disparaging sense; it suggests an unstable government. Banana republics
