satrapy
Americannoun
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satrapies
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of satrapy
1595–1605; < Latin satrapia < Greek satrapeía, equivalent to satrape-, stem of satrápēs satrap + -ia -y 3
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This isn’t the first time Musk has treated the companies he controls, whether private or publicly-traded, all as arms of his personal satrapy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Each satrapy was administered by a royal governor called a satrap, usually a trusted Persian or Median noble.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
By early February, Belarus had become a satrapy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
But what about everybody else in the benighted little satrapy?
From Forbes ● Mar. 31, 2015
The fifth satrapy or that of Syria, comprising Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Phœnicia, Palestine and the island of Cyprus.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
The Parthians, as they came to be called, were ruled by a king but had a decentralized government, relying on a network of semiautonomous rulers called satrapies to govern the administrative districts of the empire.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Because if you desire territorial conquest opportunities that are limitless, you don’t need to bother with the satrapies of Asia Minor, the kings of Persia or a shoeless Bruce Willis anymore.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2017
Once, OPEC’s loose affiliation of 14 petro-states, oil satrapies, and dictatorships could arouse terror in the developed world.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
In the past, they have often behaved like independent satrapies; under Gardner's cross-pollinizing influence, they are growing less parochial and are beginning to look beyond their borders.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were surrounded by Inka satrapies; their economy was enmeshed with the imperial machinery; they had hundreds or thousands of people doing the empire's bidding.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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