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hegemony Definition

he·gemo·ny (hi jemə nē; hejə mō′nē, hējə-)

noun pl. -·nies

leadership or dominance, esp. that of one state or nation over others

Etymology: Gr hēgemonia, leadership < hēgemōn, leader < hēgeisthai, to lead, go on ahead < IE base *sāg-, to track down > sake, seek

hegemony Related Forms
heg′·emon·ic (hej′ə mänik, hē′jə-) adjective
hegemony Synonyms

hegemony

n.

dominion, authority, leadership; see administration 1, command 2, power 2.

hegemony Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reject: First he quite clearly rejected the hegemony of epistemology.
  • impose: Indirect Rule was a cost-effective means of imposing British hegemony over the Bamenda region.
  • threaten: Or any of the other busybodies which threaten the hegemony of a superpower.
  • challenge: Firstly, a selfish hegemony will also be a challenged hegemony.
  • establish: You're not going to have the capacity to establish hegemony without the city.
  • maintain: Feeder systems in politics maintain the hegemony of the upper middle class elite over all major parties without exception.

Adjective modifier

  • ideological: There was a cultural and ideological hegemony in Bolivia, of liberalization and modernization.
  • bourgeois: The Labor Party was based on the growth of trade unionism, which was largely cut off from revolutionary influences and under bourgeois hegemony.
  • Western: For Western hegemony of the globe had been on for the best part of the last three centuries.
  • American: The cultural impact of American hegemony is not addressed.
  • cultural: Cultural hegemony was present in the 1940s, too.
  • global: And, since America no longer has global economic hegemony, who can afford to sabotage success?

Modifies a noun

  • theory: The paper argues that neither agency theory nor managerial hegemony theory adequately explains board power relations.

Noun used with modifier

  • dollar: Dollar hegemony is something we never read about in the press.
  • world: Only great conceit could inspire a dream of armed world hegemony.
  • class: Lenin did after all stress the necessity for working class hegemony in the struggle for a republic in Russia.

Preposition: in

  • region: We will not endorse any scheme which fosters or accepts India's nuclear or political hegemony in the region.

Preposition: of

  • bourgeoisie: The latter, as owners of private property, are in normal times more or less completely under the hegemony of the big bourgeoisie.
  • proletariat: Marx and Engels presented the main outlines of the idea of the hegemony of the proletariat.
  • capital: All that is historically possible is the hegemony of private capital or state capital.

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