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he·gem·o·ny

(hĭ-jĕm′ə-nē, hĕj′ə-mō′nē)

n. pl. he·gem·o·nies

The predominance of one state or social group over others.

[Greek hēgemoniā, from hēgemōn, leader; see hegemon.]

heg′e·mon′ic (hĕj′ə-mŏn′ĭk) adj.

he·gem′o·nism n.

he·gem′o·nist adj. & n.

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hegemony

(hɪˈɡɛmənɪ; hɪˈdʒɛmənɪ)

n, pl -nies

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) ascendancy or domination of one power or state within a league, confederation, etc, or of one social class over others

[C16: from Greek hēgemonia authority, from hēgemōn leader, from hēgeisthai to lead]

hegemonic, hegemonical, hegemonial adj

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he•gem•o•ny

(hɪˈdʒɛm ə ni, ˈhɛdʒ əˌmoʊ ni)

n., pl. -nies.

leadership, predominant influence, or domination, esp. as exercised by one nation over others.

[1560–70; < Greek hēgemonía leadership, supremacy =hēgemṓn leader + -ia -y³]

heg•e•mon•ic (ˌhɛdʒ əˈmɒn ɪk) adj.

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hegemony - the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"

form of government, political system - the members of a social organization who are in power

hegemony

noun domination, leadership, dominance, sway, supremacy, mastery, upper hand, ascendancy, pre-eminence, predominance the economic world hegemony of the West

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hegemony

[hɪˈgemənɪ] N → hegemonía f

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hegemony

[hɪˈgɛməni] n → hégémonie f

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hegemony

n → Hegemonie f

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It had come under the Prussian hegemony quite late in history-- hardly fifty years before the fine summer day when Flambeau and Father Brown found themselves sitting in its gardens and drinking its beer.

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Tsuda (2010), in particular, utilizes the term "English hegemony" to represent the forceful impacts resulted from the spread and the globalization of English language.

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In the 1978 Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China, Deng Xiaoping told Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda that China would never seek hegemony even if it were to become a major power in the future.

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In a slightly revised and updated version of his 2013 PhD dissertation at King's College London, Fusaro develops the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyzes it in relation to world market crises, starting from a return to the critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Quaderni and rooting the analysis in Marx's examination of the capitalist mode of production.

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Bratislava, SANA-Slovak Parliamentarian, Head of People's Party-Our Slovakia, Marian Kotleba stressed that the war waged against Syria and the conspiracy which has targeted it are due to its standing in the face of the global criminal Zionist regime and preventing it from implementing its schemes of imposing hegemony on the region.

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The op-ed is right about the emergence of a multilateral system without American hegemony, occurring well before Donald Trump took power.