Client state
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A state that is economically, politically or militarily dependent on another, more powerful state.
"On the second day of a US diplomatic push aimed at shoring up the fragile Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed as “hogwash” suggestions that his country was a client state of Washington."
Example
More examples"On the second day of a US diplomatic push aimed at shoring up the fragile Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed as “hogwash” suggestions that his country was a client state of Washington."
Etymology
Originally referred to the realm of a client king of Rome.