Usually means: Exerts control or influence over.
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  1. dominates: Merriam-Webster
  2. dominates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dominates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dominates, dominates: Wordnik
  5. dominates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dominates: Wiktionary
  7. dominates: Dictionary.com
  8. dominates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dominates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dominates: Legal dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dominates, dominates, dominates (local ring): PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dominates: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dominate)

verb:  To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
verb:  To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
verb:  To enjoy a commanding position in some field
verb:  To overlook from a height.
verb:  (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
adjective:  Dominant.
noun:  (historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
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