hegemony
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
Leadership or dominance of one group over others.
The empire held cultural hegemony for a century.
Business noun
Dominant influence or control exercised by one player over an entire market or sector.
The search engine's hegemony let it set the terms on which every advertiser reached the web.
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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