Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

petro-dictator

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables: petro--dic-ta-tor
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."

Etymology

Probably back-formed from petro-dictatorship.

Inflected Forms

petro-dictators (plural)

Questions

What does petro-dictator mean?: The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.
Where does petro-dictator come from?: Probably back-formed from petro-dictatorship.

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