fiefdom

IPA: fˈifdʌm

(historical) The estate controlled by a feudal lord.
(by extension, chiefly derogatory) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual.

Examples of "fiefdom" in Sentences

Brown's attitude is typical of this, and I live in his "fiefdom"!
Mayor Daley thinks that his fiefdom is exempt from the Founding documents.
Consolidation of the two cities has been blocked in the past because of "fiefdom" protection.
His fiefdom was the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, hers the Virginia medical examiner's system.
Scotland is what Germans call Amigoland the kind of fiefdom the CSU has made Bavaria by hook and by crook
Singh, a Lok Sabha member, has accused Kumar of overlooking genuine party workers and treating the party as his "fiefdom".
Like "banana republic," the word fiefdom is not meant to be friendly, and, by the way, is quite inaccurate when applied to Connecticut towns.
Mayawati makes no secret of the fact that she would like to cross the Yamuna River, which separates her fiefdom from the national capital in New Delhi, to be elected the first Dalit prime minister.
It was described to the engineer, and he was the de-facto explainer for the group, but seriously Childs was working for the gov't too long and had too many bad habits of "fiefdom" creation that are everywhere in city and state organizations.