fiefdom
fiefdom
Definition
fief·dom (fēf′dəm)
noun
- fief
- anything under a person's complete control or authority
fiefdom
Usage Examples
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.
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