fiefdom

Definitions

Examples

• Individual ports operate as separate fiefdoms rather than as part of a national system.

• In fact, steering the business away from these fiefdoms has been a major focus from the moment she started.

• Struggling firms had to sell and swear allegiance to pre-existing fiefdoms as underwhelmed venture capital investors who never saw the returns they hoped for cooled on making further investments into ad tech.

• One of Volley’s most popular voice games is Yes Sire, an immersive tale that imagines the player as the ruthless ruler of a fiefdom.

• Mulling this over this morning, I kept thinking about Snap, which sold stock in its IPO that gave new shareholders no votes at all, and Facebook, which is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg as his personal fiefdom.

• “The United States cannot sit back and watch an al Qaeda fiefdom rise up in Iraq,” the Iraqi official said.

• But Chechnya has become a republic of fear, the fiefdom of one man: its mercurial 36-year-old president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

• Cassano—under Sullivan and perhaps before—ran his own fiefdom and supposedly was making gobs of money for the company and himself.

• When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war.

• At the auctions it was fiefdom against fiefdom and the spoils were dragged back to Japan.