fiefdom

He ruled over his fiefdom with an iron fist.

The powerful baron controlled a vast fiefdom.

The king granted the knight a fiefdom for his loyalty.

The fiefdom was passed down through generations.

The nobleman's fiefdom was known for its fertile lands.

The vassals swore allegiance to their lord in the fiefdom.

The fiefdom had its own set of laws and customs.

The fiefdom was a stronghold of power in the region.

The peasants toiled the fields in the fiefdom.

The fiefdom was a realm unto itself.

Okay, but don't be surprised if she thinks you're trying to gain control of her little fiefdom.

The word " fiefdom" (fiefdom) refers to an area of land belonging to someone with a lot of power.

It was based entirely around the House of Habsburg, the family which carved out Austria as its own fiefdom.

Isn't that what we said the first day-- no fiefdoms?

The Oxyrhynchus project is its own little fiefdom.

So I think people in the ESG space are increasingly looking at the G and saying that companies need to be well-run, not, you know, treated like individual fiefdoms.

His family (and, most importantly, his heir) stayed in Edo whenever the daimyo left to look after his fiefdom and they were basically hostages of the shogun to ensure that the lord behaved himself.

Here, and in modern usage, " fiefdom" refers to an area that you are responsible for and that you are very territorial about, an area of responsibility that you don't want anyone else interfering with.

Despite attempts by the current Indian  government to struggle against this system, it persists in various ways today. During the Vedic period, the small fiefdoms that dominated the area became large  political entities with complex bureaucracies.

In fact his father and grandfather, respectively Vince McMahon senior and Jess McMahon, were wrestling promoters in the sport's early ramshackle days, when it comprised a set of regional fiefdoms that did not compete with each other.