n
Current popular opinion or trends of a very large group of people, a city or a country.
adj
Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one were an authority.
adj
Having a commanding style.
n
(mathematics, politics) An index defined by the probability of changing an outcome of a vote where voting rights are not necessarily equally divided among the voters or shareholders.
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(political science) The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
adj
(by extension) Loyal and dedicated to some cause.
adj
Related to wealth as far as it can be calculated in terms of money.
n
(chiefly US, idiomatic, politics, ethics) A usually secret list containing the names of people who are to be given special access, benefits, or influence in a political or social situation, especially as a result of having personal, professional, or financial relationships with those in authority.
n
A tendency to value profit over everything else.
n
Society that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
n
A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc
adj
overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian
n
(archaic) Absolute power or authority.
n
A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
n
A public figure who, as a volunteer, is an advocate for a good cause on behalf of a public organization.
n
(international relations) A state that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale.
n
The persons interested in any particular business or cause, taken collectively.
n
jobs unfairly given to someone's friends, supporters, or relations.
n
(idiomatic) A resource, usually information or knowledge, the possession of which gives the possessor access to power.
n
Magisterialness; authoritativeness.
adj
(obsolete, pharmacology) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.
n
Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.
adj
Affected by, or controlled via managerialism
n
The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations
n
Alternative spelling of personpower [manpower; workforce]
n
(obsolete) A prince; a potentate.
n
A powerful polity or institution.
n
(obsolete) A chief ruler; a potentate.
n
(metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
n
A person or group having the ability to influence important decisions, especially in public policy, politics, and business.
n
(sociology, politics) A measure of the willingness of individuals to accept the unequal distribution of power within a society or organization.
n
(dated) Someone or something of great influence and status in a region.
n
(political science, geopolitics) In international relations, the capacity of a state to deploy and sustain forces outside its territory.
n
Alternative form of power domain [(denotational semantics, domain theory) A domain of nondeterministic and concurrent computations, whose elements are certain subsets of a domain.]
n
A person in a position of power.
adj
Occupying a position of power.
n
(idiomatic) The holders of power or the authorities in a given situation, especially if seen as being faceless or unreasonably bureaucratic.
n
(plural only) Alternative spelling of powers that be [(idiomatic) The holders of power or the authorities in a given situation, especially if seen as being faceless or unreasonably bureaucratic.]
n
A serious, enthusiastic consumer: not professional (earning money), but of similar interest and skills to a (generally lower level) professional, or aspiring to such. The target market of prosumer equipment.
n
(metonymically, idiomatic) Time-consuming regulations or bureaucratic procedures.
n
(international relations) A state that exercises significant power within a geographical region.
n
(politics) The use of manipulative diplomatic policies by one country to influence and undermine the political system of a target country.
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(politics) The combination of hard power and soft power strategies.
n
A state having this kind of power.
n
An agency with unusually far-reaching powers
n
A very large and powerful corporation.
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(countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
n
Superpowers collectively.
n
A nation or state so powerful that it can influence world affairs.
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