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developing country

noun

  1. a country having a standard of living or level of industrial production well below that possible with financial or technical aid; a country that is not yet highly industrialized.


developing country

noun

  1. a nonindustrialized poor country that is seeking to develop its resources by industrialization


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Word History and Origins

Origin of developing country1

First recorded in 1950–55

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Example Sentences

Horrifying TV images looked more like a developing country in the midst of racial/tribal/ethnic strife than the United States.

As customers of the brand know, for each pair of glasses purchased, Warby Parker donates a pair to a developing country.

To many Americans, pouring aid dollars into a developing country may seem like siphoning cash into a black hole.

For hundreds of thousands of child farm workers, the U.S. might as well be a developing country.

Enterprise, backed by gold, is a life–current in the veins of a developing country whose value cannot be denied.

Situated in the midst of a rapidly developing country the enterprises of these free Negroes increased in importance every year.

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