vassal
B2CEFR level
57/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
A person or state in a subordinate position, holding rights in return for allegiance to a superior.
Smaller suppliers became vassals of the conglomerate, dependent on it for every contract they won.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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