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Third World
noun
the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
the group of developing nations, especially of Asia and Africa, that do not align themselves with the policies of either the U.S. or the former Soviet Union.
the minority groups within a nation or predominant culture.
Third World
noun
Also called: developing world.the less economically advanced countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America collectively, esp when viewed as underdeveloped and as neutral in the East-West alignment
Third World
The nonaligned nations — which are often developing nations — of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They are in a “third” group of nations because they were allied neither with the United States nor with the former Soviet Union.
Idioms and Phrases
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Many Asian and other Third World countries during the 70s, hungry for jobs for their own locals, began to set up tax-free export processing zones.
"I'm not going to start the Third World War for you," he is reported to have told General Wesley Clark.
Trump complained that the turbines would ruin golfers’ views and “turn Scotland into a Third World wasteland.”
“Why are you importing Third World savages who eat animals and giving them jobs over United States citizens?” a voicemail left for McGregor said.
As he's done many times before, the 78-year-old candidate made unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was stolen and warned that the United States was devolving “into a Third World Nation.”
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