hegemony
hegemony
Definition
he·gemo·ny (hi jem′ə nē; hej′ə mō′nē, hē′jə-)
heg′·emon′·ic (hej′ə män′ik, hē′jə-) adjective
hegemony
Synonyms
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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