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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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[…]
By any reasonable standard it is a far better deal to send money to America's farmers than to various petro-dictators.
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.
Use petro-dictator when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Petro-dictator means The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum..
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[…] ignore the warnings while America's career politicians coddled and sun-bathed with their corrupt corporate campaign donors and the petro-dictators and monarchs[…]
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