power

1. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Examples: "The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government."countableuncountable

2. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Examples: "the power of the written word"; "An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation."; "Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.[…]The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace."countable

3. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Examples: "He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power."; "“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”"; "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."countableuncountable

4. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Synonyms: powers that becountablein-pluralmetonymicallyuncountable

5. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Examples: "In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers."; "Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was."; "Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys."countablemetonymicallyuncountable

6. (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.Examples: "The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against the duke, in so much that he sent ouer a power of men into Normandie, which finding no great resistance, did much hurt in the countrie, by fetching and carieng spoiles and preies."; "Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not."archaiccountablemetonymicallyuncountable