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balance of power

  1. a distribution of military and economic power among nations that is sufficiently even to keep any one of them from being too strong or dangerous
  2. the power of a minority to give control to a larger group by allying with it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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