petrostate
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
petrostate (plural petrostates)
- A state whose wealth stems from the sale of oil.
- 1997, Fernando Coronil, The magical state: nature, money, and modernity in Venezuela:
- Under subsequent democratic regimes, as we shall see, some of these features of the petrostate were to change, while others were intensified.
- 2006, Donald S Rothchild, Edmond Joseph Keller, Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters:
- The petrostate relies on oil as its fiscal foundation, rather than on the taxes paid by the citizens […]
- 2009, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent:
- A couple of years ago, while most Canadians were out shovelling the sidewalk or sipping a coffee at Tim Hortons, the nation quietly became a petrostate.
- 2023 December 1, Damian Carrington, Nina Lakhani, Oliver Milman, “Cop28 diary: expensive coffee, cheesy slogans and petrol fumes”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Most delegates arriving at Cop28 will have entered the desert city of Dubai along a 12-lane highway, reeking of petrol fumes: welcome to the petrostate of the United Arab Emirates.