successor state
noun[C]
uk/səkˈses.ə ˌsteɪt/us/səkˈses.ɚ ˌsteɪt/a newsmallercountryformedafter alargercountryhas beendividedup:
(一个较大的国家分裂之后形成的)继承国Russia, Georgia and Ukraine are three of thesuccessorstatesto theSovietUnion.俄罗斯、格鲁吉亚和乌克兰是苏联的三个继承国。
Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- birthright citizenship
- body politic
- BRICS
- coast
- countrywide
- cross-border
- domestic
- domestically
- dual
- dual citizen
- motherland
- nation
- non-domestic
- non-indigenous
- non-national
- noncitizen
- nuclear power
- statehood
- stateless
- superpower