fiefdom

[ US /ˈfifdəm/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːfdəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the domain controlled by a feudal lord
  2. an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group
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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.
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