NARCO-STATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does narco-state mean? • NARCO-STATE (noun)
The noun NARCO-STATE has 1 sense:
1. an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent
Familiarity information: NARCO-STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NARCO-STATE (noun)
Meaning:
An area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day
Hypernyms ("narco-state" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
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