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petro-dictator en · NOUN

Etymology

Probably back-formed from petro-dictatorship.

Meanings

1. The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.
   • […] ignore the warnings while America's career politicians coddled and sun-bathed with their corrupt corporate campaign donors and the petro-dictators and monarchs[…] 2005, Peter De Krassel, Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder:
   • By any reasonable standard it is a far better deal to send money to America's farmers than to various petro-dictators. 2008, Gal Luft, Breaking Oil's Monopoly in the Transportation Sector:
   • The U.S., the U.K. and others could point usefully to their own sometimes ruinous experiences with various African petro-dictators and diamond despots, in that not-so-distant past before we discovered our new-found attention to African democracy. 2009, Ernest J. Wilson, China's Influence In Africa:

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