dominating

dominate | American Dictionary

dominate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈdɑm·əˌneɪt/
to have control over a place or a person, or to be the most important person or thing:
[ T ]It was the story that dominated the headlines this week.
[ T ]The Rams dominated the football game in handing the Eagles their second loss.

dominate | Business English

dominate
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈdɒmɪneɪt/us
to be more important, powerful, or successful than other people, companies, etc.:
This is an industry where a few global manufacturers and their brands dominate.
They dominate the market for high-speed internet routers.
to be the largest or most noticeable part of something:
The dispute is likely to dominate the meeting.
male-/female-dominatedShe is a powerful female figurehead in a very male-dominated industry.

domination

noun[ U ]
the growing domination of electronic media in our lives

Examples of dominate

dominate
How dispensable is this figure of the dominating subject?
They might well have dominated the society in any event.
All want a unitary state dominated by one single ideology.
Staples dominated the ports' exports and became the basis of their economies.
On the contrary, the climate of opinion was dominated by fears of the imminent collapse of the social order.
She has had fifty governments since the end of the war, many of them dominated by the same personalities and the same political party.
The saint's tomb (moved subsequently from its original position) dominates a great chapel on the south side of the cathedral.
My observations were made mostly in areas dominated by agriculture where the effects of seasonality could have been especially pronounced.
Protestant loyalists dominated the statelet from its formation.
The creation of the legal framework has ended the" voluntarist" tradition that has dominated industrial relations in the twentieth century.
Here we may discern a connection balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.
In its next, more public phase, it is likely to be dominated as much by events as by concepts.
All three of us teach and research in media studies- an area mainly dominated by men.
Another huge and unexpected force dominated the area during the last halfcentury covered by this book.
In the last couple of decades the innatist view has dominated the fields of first and second language acquisition.
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