ruling power

  • 1ruling power — index government (political administration) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2power structure — ☆ power structure n. those persons or groups in a nation, city, organization, etc. who through economic, social, and institutional position constitute the actual ruling power …

    English World dictionary

  • 3Power over Ethernet — or PoE technology describes a system to transfer electrical power, along with data, to remote devices over standard twisted pair cable in an Ethernet network. This technology is useful for powering IP telephones, wireless LAN access points,… …

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  • 4power — is the concept which is at the heart of the subject of social stratification . It is therefore not surprising that we have seen so many disputes concerning its meaning (including disputes about what particular sociologists meant when they used… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 5power — n 1 Power, force, energy, strength, might, puissance mean the ability to exert effort for a purpose. Power is the most general of these terms and denotes an ability to act or be acted upon, to effect something, or to affect or be affected by… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 6Power to the people (slogan) — Power to the people is a political slogan that has been used in a wide variety of contexts.During the 1960s in the United States, young people began speaking and writing this phrase as a form of rebellion against what they perceived as the… …

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  • 7ruling clique — ruling class, governing class, group that holds power …

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  • 8Ruling class — The term ruling class refers to the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society s political policy. The ruling class is a particular sector of the upper class that adheres to quite specific circumstances: it has both… …

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  • 9Power elite — A power elite, in political and sociological theory, is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, and access to decision making of global consequence. The term was coined by Charles Wright Mills in his… …

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  • 10Ruling class —    For Marxists the ruling class is the economically dominant class, and the economically dominant class is the class that owns and controls the means of production. With economic power comes political power, and Karl Marx saw the ruling class as …

    Historical dictionary of Marxism