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PEOPLE IN POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does people in power mean? 

PEOPLE IN POWER (noun)
  The noun PEOPLE IN POWER has 1 sense:

1. the class of people exerting power or authorityplay

  Familiarity information: PEOPLE IN POWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEOPLE IN POWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The class of people exerting power or authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

people in power; ruling class

Hypernyms ("people in power" is a kind of...):

upper class; upper crust (the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy)


 Context examples 


When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to punish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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