Meanings of client state in English

Mongolia, Masha of course knew, was a puppet client state of the Soviet Union.

It still flexes its muscles in its former client state via an array of Lebanese and Palestinian allies.

It has become an archetypal " client state".

The 'republic' of Transnistria, legally subject to rule from Chisinau but in reality a Russian client state, sits outside of international law.

If only he'd at least had someone trained back home, or in a camp in some Soviet client state, Korea or Iraq or Peru.

The good old USA, despite its military prowess, is now suddenly just another de facto client state that owes billions, if not homage, to China.

Last weekend the British chief negotiator David Frost banged that drum with the insistence that Britain would not let itself be a " client state".

The Philippines was a U.S. colony for about 50 years and was its principle client state in the Far East for another 40.

But Russia is doing more than sharing technology with its former client states.

Particularly so when crises involve client states of the Big Five.

But these client states of Rome had neither independence nor peace.

It's much more difficult for client states to behave in exactly the same way.

The Russians had, I guess you'd call them client states.

But the only possible way of ending it was by converting the client states into Roman provinces.

During the cold war neither superpower could allow one of its client states, however grotesque or ramshackle, to fail.

'Sparta is a client state, not a conquered territory, Frontinus.'