English-Czech translations for vassal

• vazal
  Je naprosto nepřijatelné, aby se Evropa změnila ve vazala Spojených států. To turn Europe into a vassal of the United States is completely unacceptable.
  Vaše intervence MMF-EU v Irsku má daleko k nouzové pomoci, je to mechanismus, který má z irských daňových poplatníků učinit vazaly evropských bank. Far from being a bail-out, your IMF-EU intervention in Ireland is a mechanism to make the Irish taxpayers vassals to the European banks.

Definition of vassal

• The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant
• Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile
• To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave

Related words

• vassalage
• subvassal
• vassal state