overlordship
- n the position of overlord
- Blacks who were involved in the war on both sides achieved nothing but colonial overlordship and 30 years of apartheid.
- Canada's ten many-branched banks have no Federal Reserve overlordship, no small bank competition, but the law under which they operate must be overhauled every ten years.
- At stake was the overlordship of Melbourne's bustling, 16-acre Victoria Market, beneath whose iron-roofed sheds are crowded the stalls of 800 produce growers and 200 agents.