hegemonic
C2CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Relating to the dominance of one group, ideology or state over others.
The text interrogates the hegemonic assumptions of Western scholarship.
Business adjective
Exercising controlling dominance over an industry or market.
Regulators worried the platform's hegemonic grip on search would foreclose any credible challenger.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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