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domination Definition

domi·na·tion (däm′ə nās̸hən)

noun

a dominating or being dominated; rule; control; ascendancy

Etymology: ME dominacioun < OFr domination < L dominatio

domination Synonyms

domination

n.

domination Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • bourgeoisie: Together they ax the fundamental support of the domination of the British bourgeoisie.
  • capitalism: Such is the domination of globalized capitalism that this is the logic of all those who accept working within its limits.
  • capital: Thus the author has no alternative to the prospect of the increasing domination of global capital and the subversion of the aims of Chavez.
  • politics: In this instance, the emphasis is on Pitt's domination of British politics in this period.
  • chain: The market control they seek is through the domination of supply chains and processing.
  • market: The console market expands destroying the Amigas ' domination of the home computer market.

Converse of object

  • perpetuate: A puppet state was set up in the north to perpetuate British imperialist domination.
  • resist: For nearly a thousand years, we have successfully resisted foreign domination.
  • oppose: There are honorable grounds for upholding the authority of the United Nations and opposing American global domination.
  • achieve: The only way he can think of achieving world domination is through direct military rule.
  • avoid: The Prison Service will however continue to seek to avoid undue market domination by a single supplier.
  • seek: More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination.

Adjective modifier

  • imperialist: There can be no real self-determination under imperialist domination.
  • colonial: Marseilles used to be the main Mediterranean port of French colonial domination.
  • imperial: He unmasks a restrictive society in his depiction of sexual and imperial domination.
  • Soviet: In early 1989, few predicted Eastern Europe would escape Soviet domination by Thanksgiving.
  • galactic: Armed only with science and sex appeal, Flash is out to thwart the evil Emperor Ming's plans of galactic domination.

Noun used with modifier

  • world: Their pursuit of world domination is the cause of the Cold War.
  • market: Market domination Where a supplier has a major share of the market.