subject state

The Jews of Palestine thus became once more a subject state, stripped of their conquests and confined to their own borders.

Suppose that, under cover of the war, Japan was tightening her hold on China, and gradually turning China into a subject state.

The Jews are mournfully conscious of their subject state beneath the Persian yoke.

Labor is not a "subject state;" nor is capital in any sense its master.

What political power could be wielded in a subject state of the Empire was in their hands.