Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun banana_republic

1 sense of banana republic

Sense 1
banana republic -- (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))
       => country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")