Fiefdom

Noun

 * 1) The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief.
 * The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king.
 * 1)  Any organization in the control of a dominant individual. Primarily used with a critical or pejorative connotation.
 * Most of our company's computers are standardized, but the IT director allows the employees in his own little fiefdom to specify their own machines.

Thesaurus
adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim, colony, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, hold, holding, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, seisin, socage, squatting, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 埰邑, 采邑
 * Finnish: läänitys


 * French:
 * German: Lehenswesen
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: valtakunta