fief
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- Rhymes: -iːf
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fief (plural fiefs)
- An estate held of a superior on condition of military service.
- Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
- (metaphor) An area of dominion, esp. in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
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Fief in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.