narco-state

1. 1.

   an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent

   “this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day”

   Broadergeographical area

Questions about narco-state

What does narco-state mean?

narco-state means "an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent".

How many syllables are in narco-state?

narco-state has 3 syllables and divides as nar-co--state under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is narco-state a common word?

narco-state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.