client state

noun

Definition of client statenext
as in settlement

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Recent Examples of client state Their client state of Syria is no more. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026 Hamas and Hezbollah, which have enjoyed Iran’s support, have also been seriously debilitated and there is a new government in Syria that is no longer a client state of Iran. — Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 12 Jan. 2026 Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War. — Shuxian Luo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2025 Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for client state
Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
  1. settlement
  2. trust territory
  3. province
  4. mandate
  5. dependency
  6. democracy
  7. soil
  8. dictatorship
Noun
  • When the 2025 House settlement limited rosters to 105 players instead of effectively unlimited, coaches were less willing to go all out in practice and risk injuries.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The settlement also required independent evidence to corroborate any match.
    — Edward Longe, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of settlement
Noun
  • The separatist movement dates back to the early 1960s, when the British Southern Cameroons, a United Nations trust territory previously governed as part of Nigeria’s eastern region, was joined with Cameroon.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.
    — Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024
Definition of trust territory
Noun
  • Tianwen-3 appears on track getting the trek underway around 2028 on two Long March-5 heavy-lift carrier rockets from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China's southernmost island province of Hainan.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Twenty months of liquor retaliation between the United States and Canada have cost distillers in both countries, cost provinces revenue and narrowed what people on both sides of the border can pour.
    — Lars Hanson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of province
Noun
  • There doesn’t seem to be any sort of mandate requiring Stearns to cut payroll or at least cut back.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Democrats have been handed a mandate to work for the betterment of the entire country.
    — Abdul Malik Mujahid, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of mandate
Noun
  • Its removable battery eliminates a major dependency on external power.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, China is going all out for tech self-sufficiency precisely to escape the kind of dependencies that Huang envisages.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of dependency
Noun
  • This final aspect represents democracy's functional correction mechanism, which the midterm results demonstrated in ample measure.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Tellingly, with some honorable exceptions, élite celebrities have been circumspect about the trashing of democracy in the MAGA era.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of democracy
Noun
  • Kyiv has claimed responsibility for some attacks on Russian soil.
    — Harriet Morris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
  • The design of the bracing needs to take into account the kind of soil in the area, as well as the weight of the neighboring building and that building’s foundation.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • The first project is about the disappearance of petty criminal El Nani (aka Santiago Correla) in 1980s Spain during the country’s transition out of dictatorship and into democracy.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Nixon had called Cuba a dictatorship prior to the interview, and has repeated that position since.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of dictatorship

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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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