semifeudal
- adjective
- /ˌsɛmɪˈfjuːdəl/
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semifeudal
- In some regions, a semifeudal hierarchy still influences social interactions and economic opportunities.
Examples
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The village operated under a semifeudal system where a few landowners dominated the local economy.
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In reviewing the history of sexuality in Japan, Teruoka called the period 1867-1945 a "semifeudal" era in the history of Japan.
Academic text (1990) -
We were inspired and guided by Mao's class analysis of the semicolonial and semifeudal society.
Blog text (9) -
I, on the other hand, not only became a writer, but wound up living on a semifeudal estate in England, a country I came to associate with love at such an early age that, even after being here for eight years, I can hardly see it objectively.
Academic text (2009) -
They want the Muslim world to retreat into governance by a semifeudal religious oligarchy.
Academic text (2007) -
I generally agree with his opinion regarding the semifeudal ethos, which tended to prevail in varying degrees even within the most "Western" stratum of Japan.
Academic text (1990) -
We have adopted the program of a new democratic republic as the basic program of our party in the context of Nepal, which is in the situation of semifeudal, semi-colonial, and neo-colonial.
Blog text (19) -
Mao's class analysis of the semicolonial and semifeudal society enabled the Chinese Communist Party to win the people's democratic revolution with the correct program, strategy, and tactics, and proceed to the socialist revolution.
Blog text (9) -
Already in 1983, poverty-stricken, predominantly agrarian, and semifeudal Haiti was exporting more manufactured goods to the United States than any other country in the subregion.
Academic text (1998) -
This formulation is eminently applicable to Dona Barbara, which does not merely reflect or describe the semifeudal class structure but can be seen as more actively discouraging "full understanding of this system and of the ways in which people are socially constituted within it."
Academic text (1993)
How Feudal
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Etymology
The word semifeudal combines semi- meaning 'half' or 'partly', as in semi-final, and feudal, which refers to the old system where local lords owned land and people worked for them. So semifeudal describes a place or society that is only partly like that old lord-and-land system.