neo-colony

• neocolony

From neo- +‎ colony.

neo-colony (plural neo-colonies)

1. A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
   • 1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 201:

     Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.