client state

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

client states plural

词源

Originally referred to the realm of a client king of Rome.
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