fiefdom

Converse of object

• establish: But the truth is that multiculturalism increasingly became an operative mode for establishing fiefdoms.
• compete: The problem is not technology but the management of business systems and information technology as a whole, not as two competing fiefdoms.

Adjective modifier

• personal: Control over the flow of information from the government to the media became Campbell ' s personal fiefdom.
• private: When their reputations are all-important, corporations can't carry on as private fiefdoms with no obligations other than to the capital markets.
• own: So you have all this expense because the Branch Director wants to keep his own little fiefdom.
• petty: Europe is fragmented into petty fiefdoms and is in turmoil after the Viking raids.
• local: The possibility therefore exists of a new patchwork of local fiefdoms growing up, each imposing their own, unrelated, rationing criteria.
• little: So you have all this expense because the Branch Director wants to keep his own little fiefdom.