Turkish - Turkish
Definition of fief in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- Derebeylik düzeninde bir vasala senyörce verilen toprak veya mal
English - English
Definition of fief in English English dictionary
- An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy
- An estate held of a superior on condition of military service
- Something over which one has rights or exercises control
- a landed estate held under feudal tenure
- {n} a fee, manor, tenure, dependance, homage
- a piece of land held under the feudal system
- {i} fee, feudal estate, land held on condition of service and loyalty to the feudal lord who granted it
- See under Benefice, n
- - one's area of control
- A grant of something of value, most often land, from a lord to his vassal
- An interest in land given under a feudal system The term "fee,' as used to denote the extent of one's interest in land, is derived from the term fief
- Fief Normally, land held by a vassal of a lord in return for stipulated services, chiefly military Can also apply to an official position Often called a Holding
- An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud
- In former times, a fief was a piece of land given to someone by their lord, to whom they had a duty to provide particular services in return. In European feudalism, a vassal's source of income, granted to him by his lord in exchange for his services. The fief usually consisted of land and the labor of peasants who were bound to cultivate it. The income it provided supported the vassal, who fought for his lord as a knight. Dignities, offices, and money rents were also given in fief
- An estate granted by a lord to a vassal from which sufficient income could be derived to clothe, arm, and sustain himself
- fiefdom
- 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.
- A fief
- feoff
- fiefdom
- Any organization in the control of a dominant individual
- fiefdom
- The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief
- fiefdom
- an organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group the domain controlled by a feudal lord
- fiefdom
- the domain controlled by a feudal lord
- fiefdom
- an organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group
- fiefdom
- {i} estate of a feudal lord, plantation worked by serfs serve the owner of the estate; any property or organization controlled by a dominant person or group
- fiefdoms
- plural of fiefdom