Stranglehold
noun
A position of complete control that prevents something from developing.
The company has a stranglehold on the smartphone market
Often appears as...
- have a stranglehold
- release the stranglehold
noun
A grip around the neck of another person that can cause death.
He was charged with attempted murder for using a stranglehold on his victim
Often appears as...
- apply a stranglehold
- escape from a stranglehold
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
noun
A position of complete control that prevents something from developing.
The company has a stranglehold on the smartphone market
Often appears as...
- have a stranglehold
- release the stranglehold
noun
A grip around the neck of another person that can cause death.
He was charged with attempted murder for using a stranglehold on his victim
Often appears as...
- apply a stranglehold
- escape from a stranglehold
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe overwhelming power in business or influence.
After the merger, their stranglehold on the industry tightened even further.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Implies a negative impact on creativity, growth, or freedom by the dominating force.
The new regulations put a stranglehold on the emerging artists' community.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Suggests an imbalance of power where one party has an advantage over another.
The union's negotiation ended the employer's stranglehold on workers' wages.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe overwhelming power in business or influence.
After the merger, their stranglehold on the industry tightened even further.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Implies a negative impact on creativity, growth, or freedom by the dominating force.
The new regulations put a stranglehold on the emerging artists' community.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Suggests an imbalance of power where one party has an advantage over another.
The union's negotiation ended the employer's stranglehold on workers' wages.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe overwhelming power in business or influence.
After the merger, their stranglehold on the industry tightened even further.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Implies a negative impact on creativity, growth, or freedom by the dominating force.
The new regulations put a stranglehold on the emerging artists' community.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Suggests an imbalance of power where one party has an advantage over another.
The union's negotiation ended the employer's stranglehold on workers' wages.
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It's OK to feel...
it's taught us that you have to be surrounded by abundance in order to safe. The disconnect between those who have and those who have not has never been bigger, and never in my lifetime, and probably in any of our lifetimes, has there been an invitation, again, to release the stranglehold on your hoarding.
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
carcasses and crunch through heavy bone they don't need that by force pressure the only thing they need to be able to do is to be able to suffocate their prey and they do that by the stranglehold but otherwise they don't need the excessively powerful jaw of something like a howl you know or even a lion and
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The dark history of...
has lost its stranglehold on Latin American politics. But the modern banana industry isn’t without problems. Cavendish bananas require frequent applications of pesticides that create hazards for farmworkers and ecosystems. And though they’re resistant to the particular pathogen
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Cute Jumping Indri...
grasping hands and feet of all primates it's fundamental for a life in the trees as well as an effective way to put a stranglehold on an older brother
Video examples
It's OK to feel...
it's taught us that you have to be surrounded by abundance in order to safe. The disconnect between those who have and those who have not has never been bigger, and never in my lifetime, and probably in any of our lifetimes, has there been an invitation, again, to release the stranglehold on your hoarding.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
carcasses and crunch through heavy bone they don't need that by force pressure the only thing they need to be able to do is to be able to suffocate their prey and they do that by the stranglehold but otherwise they don't need the excessively powerful jaw of something like a howl you know or even a lion and
Video examples
The dark history of...
has lost its stranglehold on Latin American politics. But the modern banana industry isn’t without problems. Cavendish bananas require frequent applications of pesticides that create hazards for farmworkers and ecosystems. And though they’re resistant to the particular pathogen
Video examples
Cute Jumping Indri...
grasping hands and feet of all primates it's fundamental for a life in the trees as well as an effective way to put a stranglehold on an older brother
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.
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Jack Keane
American General
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Samantha Harvey
English Author
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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Audrey Strauss
American Public Servant
For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the Genovese Crime Family, instilled fear in victims and perpetrated kickback schemes to tighten the Family's stranglehold over two labor unions.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.
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Alveda King
American Clergyman
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
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Lee Hyeon-seo
South Korean Writer
I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.
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Van Heflin
I don't believe in letting the advertising business get a stranglehold on the entertainment industry.
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Madeleine M. Kunin
American Diplomat
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.
Quote examples
Jack Keane
American General
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
Quote examples
Samantha Harvey
English Author
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Quote examples
Camille Paglia
American Author
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
Quote examples
Audrey Strauss
American Public Servant
For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the Genovese Crime Family, instilled fear in victims and perpetrated kickback schemes to tighten the Family's stranglehold over two labor unions.
Quote examples
Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.
Quote examples
Alveda King
American Clergyman
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
Quote examples
Lee Hyeon-seo
South Korean Writer
I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.
Quote examples
Van Heflin
I don't believe in letting the advertising business get a stranglehold on the entertainment industry.
Quote examples
Madeleine M. Kunin
American Diplomat
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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