vassal state

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vassal state

noun vassal states

  1. A state that is subordinate to another; a government that is chiefly directed by the interests of an overlord or patron state. At a recent conference in Slovakia, President Emmanuel Macron of France called Belarus a “vassal state,” but said Europe bore some of the blame.

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noun state that is subordinate to another

Españolestado vasallo
日本語付庸国 fuyōkoku
中文附庸國 /附庸国 fùyōngguó, 諸侯國 /诸侯国 zhūhóuguó, 藩屬國 /藩属国 fānshǔguó, 屬國 /属国 shǔguó
Portuguêsestado vassalo
FrançaisÉtat vassal
DeutschVasallenstaat
Русскийвасса́льное госуда́рство vassálʹnoje gosudárstvo

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@misc{vassal_state_2026,
  title = {vassal state},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vassal%20state},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}