English-Danish translations for vassal

• vasal
  Men Nepal er ikke en vasalstat. Yet Nepal is not a vassal state.
  Det er fuldstændig uacceptabelt at forvandle Europa til USA's vasalstat. To turn Europe into a vassal of the United States is completely unacceptable.
  Den irske regering har allerede gjort vores land til en vasalstat under IMF, som handler skamløst på vegne af spekulanterne og de finansielle markeder. The Irish Government has already turned our country into a vassal state of the IMF, which is acting blatantly on behalf of the speculators and the financial markets.

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