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feudal system

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Noun1.feudal systemfeudal system - the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
feudalism
social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"


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The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
The protector had become the protected, and the whole fabric of the feudal system was tottering to a fall.
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