0 the right of a country to partly control another:
Japan acknowledged Russian suzerainty over the island of Sakhalin.
The dharma of a powerful king was to set up a suzerainty.
The central government can negotiate minimal compliance with its formal suzerainty.
I also hope that we may hear the last of this absurd and anachronistic rubbish about suzerainty.
How will these suzerainty rights affect these people?
I hope that the confusion which has been sown by the use of the phraseology of suzerainty and autonomy, will now pass into oblivion.
I think there may be a danger of confusing suzerainty with sovereignty.
You cannot apply a term like suzerainty here.
We must get rid of the feeling of your suzerainty and you as bosses.