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• n  the domain controlled by a feudal lord
• n  an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group

• More than that, it also may have been a turning point in political history: the beginning of the end of May or Richard Daley's fiefdom, the last great political machine in America.
• In the late 19th century, Belgium's King Leopold made a personal fiefdom of the central African territory as large as all of Western Europe.
• The Edens come of Norman stock, and as far back as the 15th century one lusty Robert de Eden carved out a fiefdom close to the Scottish border.

News & Articles

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• Hollywood’s Tipsy Boar an exercise in good taste and gluttony
  The Tipsy Boar, the latest addition to the Sardelli family’s Hollywood restaurant fiefdom (Fulvio’s 1900, Vino, Sardelli’s on Hollywood Beach), is a gut-busting, beer-swigging delight.
  June 25, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• Dmitry Medvedev in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Dmitry Trenin, a senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said Medvedev "clearly sees foreign policy as his fiefdom, and Putin is actually playing ball with him on that."
• Carl Icahn in Reuters
  When the public owns shares, management can no longer treat the company as their plaything and fiefdom,Icahn said in an interview. "They now are trustees and employees, which transforms into fiduciaries."
• Osama bin Laden in Family Security Matters
  The capitalist system,Bin Laden says, "seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of 'globalization' in order to protect democracy."