semifeudal

adjective

semi·feu·dal ˌse-mē-ˈfyü-dᵊl

ˌse-ˌmī-,

-mi-

: having some characteristics of feudalism

Examples of semifeudal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The country had an economy largely dominated by latifundios, semifeudal plantations whose owners treated their peasants as racially inferior and almost indistinguishable from property. —

Dan Kaufman, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022

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