feudal
adjective
of, relating to, or like the feudal system, or its political, military, social, and economic structure.
quasi-feudal
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a word derived from
feudal.
Example Sentences
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“It was quasi-feudal, really, and I can’t see us going back to that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
They build a house for themselves by a copse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but they do not own the site and, inevitably, the landowners, a quasi-feudal oligarchy, begin to circle.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017
For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the country's enormous potential was stunted by its quasi-feudal class system — a legacy of its founding monarchy, which ended in 1889 — and by military rule.
From Time ● Mar. 18, 2011
Gorbachev's anticorruption drive, moreover, tends to hit hardest in those republics whose quasi-feudal party leadership has traditionally operated on a basis of bribery, kickbacks and influence peddling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parliament, convocation of, first, 377 Peasants, revolt of, 324-325; security of, against oppression, 395-396; in the quasi-feudal system, 244-245.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
