kleptocracy
/klep-tok-ruh-see/US // klɛpˈtɒk rə si //UK // (ˌklɛpˈtɒkrəsɪ) //
贪污腐败,贪污罪,贪污,贪污腐化
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural klep·toc·ra·cies.
- : a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
Examples
Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.
How about staging large-scale NATO military maneuvers at the border and freezing the assets of the kleptocracy?
Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”
But no political parties are immune to the infection of kleptocracy in Ukraine.
For many dissidents, the video was clear-cut proof that Burma has become a military kleptocracy.
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