dominant
There have been decades of U.S. military dominance in the region.
The commercial radio station announced its intentions to challenge the dominance of BBC radio, which had a 55% market share.
Is the dominance of computer trading a good thing for the world financial markets?
She studies the overt and subtle ways in which males attempt to maintain dominance in the workplace.

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dominance | Business English

dominance
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈdɒmɪnəns/us
the situation in which one company, product, etc. has more power, influence, or success than others:
The ability of a firm to set or control market prices is a sign of dominance.

Examples of dominance

dominance
In the end this elaborate process has so far sustained the electoral dominance of the two national parties.
Local political embeddedness is shallow and political measures have not significantly reduced the implications of this dominance.
The interaction of local concerns with national themes and the frequent dominance of the former are convincingly demonstrated.
The reasons for the dominance of kinase (and other enzyme) inhibitors as targets for modern cancer therapeutics are centred on the enzyme substrate-binding site.
Public support of the dominance of the supply-side in health policy was strong and broad for most of the twentieth century.
However, with regard to the conversation it seems reasonable to assume that less dominance would have been observed had both participants received equal instruction.
Corporate concentration had grown to such proportions that only the national government could rein in the dominance of big business.
Perhaps the other minor quibble about this series is the dominance of medicine and the medical model in the scope of topics discussed.
Competition between bacterial populations in a community causes a succession of microorganisms and may lead to the dominance of some species.
The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology : a case study of dominance effects.
Before proponents of the so-called literary turn in anthropology achieved dominance in the field, the anthropological monograph was an easily identified artefact.
Again, this seems at odds with the evidence that it was the left-hemispheric dominance for vocalization, not righthandedness, that arose earlier in evolution.
There is some, if not a great deal, of room for the courts to manoeuvre in the dominance of the party and administrative power.
These variances are equal in the absence of dominance (d l 0).
The women preferred to evaluate the varieties separately at physiological maturity to overcome the problem of male dominance.
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