chieftaincy

Examples

• All

• In colonial Africa, the employment of the chieftaincy for tax collection was quite damaging to the chiefs' prestige.

  Academic text (1993)

• Social problems are also the explicit domain of the Vanuatu chieftaincy.

  Academic text (1993)

• Mazi is a chieftaincy title.

  Sanitation Day (2021)

• What is more important is how conducive the chieftaincy is to positive change in its country.

  Academic text (1993)

• The emergence of the chieftaincy as a national institution in Vanuatu has received much less attention.

  Academic text (1993)

• Retaining the chieftaincy, goes this argument, is tantamount to holding back progress and development.

  Academic text (1993)

• Yet traditional chieftaincies are hardly a monopoly of Africa.

  Academic text (1993)

• Many leaders of civic organizations spurn the entire chieftaincy structure in rural areas

  Academic text (1998)

• An educated chieftaincy also reflects the wider society's general level of development.

  Academic text (1993)

• In this regard, an educated chieftaincy is more likely to constitute an effective, progressive force than an uneducated one.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

R

rulership

vschieftaincy

2 7.5

The time a leader has power over a country

is limited to leaders of tribes or clans rather than general governance

C

chiefship

vschieftaincy

1 6.6

The time when a person leads a group

is specific to tribal or clan authority rather than general leadership

C

chieftainship

vschieftaincy

8.6

A position where a person leads a tribe or clan

is the alternative form often used in similar contexts

How Authoritative

sovereignty

127 8.0

kingship

• Formal

4 6.5

chieftaincy

9.9

figurehead

15 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology