client state
nounDefinition of client state
: a country that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another country
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The Law Offices of Craig M. Greaves posted on its Facebook page in defense of his client stating the encounter was consensual and called out the victim for waiting several months to report it. — Jenny Dial Creech, San Antonio Express-News, "Sexual assault case leads to questions of proper punishment at Texas A&M," 13 June 2018 This was an audacious move, particularly for a client state. — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump’s New World Order," 11 June 2018 Panicos Kaouris, president of the Cyprus China Business Association, shrugs off concerns that the onetime British territory may wind up becoming a client state of China. — Alan Crawford, Bloomberg.com, "Everything Is for Sale in Cyprus, and China’s Buying," 24 Apr. 2018 Long-term, Moscow wants a reliable client state in the Middle East. — Ian Bremmer, Time, "Why the Syrian Civil War Is Becoming Even More Complex," 6 Apr. 2018 Cuba was a client state of the Soviet Union and was under diplomatic and economic embargo by the United States for decades. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Report: "Sonic" Injuries Against U.S. Diplomats in Cuba Are Real," 15 Feb. 2018 When the Soviets and Americans stopped funding client states, many belligerents sought other revenue streams, for example smuggling diamonds out of west African war-zones, says Sebastian von Einsiedel of the University of the UN in Tokyo. — The Economist, "When the shooting stopsHow to stop countries sliding back into civil war," 18 Jan. 2018 The current standoff over North Korea’s nuclear provocations bears a more-than-passing resemblance to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the last time a nuclear-armed superpower client state and the U.S. faced off. — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, "Why Markets Don’t Care About North Korea—Yet," 4 Sep. 2017 The danger of Qatar evolving into a full-fledged Iranian client state is vastly overblown; this is not something that the Al-Thani family would find palatable. — WSJ, "End Qatar’s Policy of Strategic Ambiguity," 7 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'client state.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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