feudal estate

collocation in English

meaningsoffeudalandestate

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feudal
adjective
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/ˈfjuː.dəl/us
/ˈfjuː.dəl/
relating to the social system of western Europe in the Middle Ages or any society that is organized according to rank. In a feudal society, people at one level of society receive land to live and work on from those higher than them in rank, and in return have to work for them and fight for them if necessary, sometimes also giving them some of the food ...
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estate
noun
uk
/ɪˈsteɪt/us
/ɪˈsteɪt/
a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or ...
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(Definition offeudalandestatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Empty economic buildings on the area of thefeudalestatewent to ruin and were finally torn down.
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Development was blocked by the existence of thefeudalestateand no improvement occurred until capitalism began to develop.
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Such division was often met by those who had held large feudal estates, and by the tribal leaders, with displeasure and opposition.
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Thefeudalestatesystem was abolished.
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Burghers bought feudal estates in the proximity of the city, superseding knight families.
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Some sovereign courts of accounts were raised from grand feudal estates also existing in certain provinces, and did not therefore form a cohesive whole.
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They owned large feudal estates which helped to give them considerable independence for long periods of time.
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Isolated feudal estates were being replaced by centralized nation-states as the focus of power.
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He and his family enjoyed absolute powers, ruling over people as subjects and controlling much of the country as feudal estates.
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The feudal estates lost their power over cases of state.
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Besides the sheriffs, others who submitted accounts for the audit included some bailiffs of various honours, town officials, and the custodians of ecclesiastical and feudal estates.
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Casimir introduced a more mature form of feudalism and relieved the burden of financing large army units from the duke's treasury by settling his warriors on feudal estates.
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