Suzerainty

Quick meaning: Suzerainty is a noun meaning A similar relationship between other entities.

Meaning

A similar relationship between other entities.

More Meanings

1. The status or power of a suzerain.
2. A relation between states in which a subservient nation has its own government, but is unable to take international action independent of the superior state.

Example Sentences

under suzerainty to

She was tired of living under suzerainty to her parents.

[O]rganizations and enterprises in the regions, run in a personal way almost as local corporations, or what I call "suzerainties," by local bosses, have strengthened themselves and increased their social functions to protect their members.

I give a short lecture on why it is possible for similar amoral areas to exist along Burma's fringes: about the way that Burma has never really been a "country," but has been more a series of suzerainties whose composition has changed enormously in the past 1,500 years.

Word Forms

• suzerainties
• suzereignty

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supervenience, cosovereignty, synarchy, costate, consociation, diarchy.

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