[
US
/ˈfifdəm/
]
[ UK /fˈiːfdəm/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːfdəm/ ]
NOUN
- the domain controlled by a feudal lord
- an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group
How To Use fiefdom In A Sentence
- From 1964 to 1982, Chairman Charles Swibel - appointed by Daley to the board in 1956 at the young age of 29-ran the CHA as a small fiefdom.
- His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
- Now he looks to be making an unceremonious exit from the Baroda Cricket Association as well which he has been ruling over like his personal fiefdom.
- He wrote many books, commanding a swathe of medieval history as if it had been a personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
- The intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom.
- His fiefdom was the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, hers the Virginia medical examiner's system. Predator
- He has made it clear that the England team are a personal fiefdom, run on autocratic grounds. Times, Sunday Times
- The existing alphabet soup of agencies and separate local fiefdoms is a dysfunctional mess. Sound Politics: Million Dollar Bash
- Singh, a Lok Sabha member, has accused Kumar of overlooking genuine party workers and treating the party as his "fiefdom". The Economic Times
- It was an amalgamation of independent German kingdoms, fiefdoms, and statelets, lightly bound together with no revenue, army, courts, or police.