English-Swedish translations for vassal

• vasall
  Vi är deras vänner, men vi vill inte vara deras vasaller och ännu mindre deras lakejer.We are their friends, but we do not wish to be their vassals and still less their lackeys.
  Det verkar som om Förenta staterna lägger ut denna insats, som nu fått underordnad betydelse, på underentreprenad hos sina europeiska vasaller, eftersom man behöver sina trupper i Mellanöstern.It seems that, as the United States need their troops in the Middle East, they are sub-contracting this operation, which is now of secondary importance, to their European vassals.
  Långt ifrån ett räddningspaket är Internationella valutafondens och EU:s ingripande på Irland en mekanism för att göra de irländska skattebetalarna till de europeiska bankernas vasaller.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