DEVELOPING COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does developing country mean? 

• DEVELOPING COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun DEVELOPING COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically

  Familiarity information: DEVELOPING COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVELOPING COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("developing country" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

 Context examples 

The use of pesticides has been linked to a sharp rise in colon cancer deaths in a developing country for the first time.

(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)