kleptocracy / klɛpˈtɒk rə si /

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kleptocracy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural klep·toc·ra·cies.

  1. a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.

更多kleptocracy例句

  1. Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.
  2. How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy?
  3. Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”
  4. But no political parties are immune to the infection of kleptocracy in Ukraine.
  5. For many dissidents, the video was clear-cut proof that Burma has become a military kleptocracy.