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US
/ˈstɹæŋɡəɫˌhoʊɫd/
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[ UK /stɹˈæŋɡəlhˌəʊld/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈæŋɡəlhˌəʊld/ ]
NOUN
- a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
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complete power over a person or situation
the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public
corporations have a stranglehold on the media
How To Use stranglehold In A Sentence
- Far more serious than their sins against the basic rules of journalism is the corporate stranglehold over the major print and broadcast outlets.
- And another bankruptcy, involving Braniff Airlines, reminded everyone of the stranglehold the Big Eight carriers have over the domestic market.
- Seeing the potential of its software besmirching the Symantec name irreparably, Symantec's CEO surged forward with a new plan: re-write its security software to make it the best in the industry, so as to super-strengthen its stranglehold on the summit of sales supremacy while swiftly swinging its way back into the good books of consumers. ITWire - Latest Headlines
- corporations have a stranglehold on the media
- Japan is caught in a stranglehold of bad debt and deflation.
- An antitrust judgment in 1954 forced the firm to release stranglehold on the shoe machinery market.
- Dan Brown and his debonair professor of "symbology" Robert Langdon have broken the stranglehold that celebrity autobiographies have held over December book sales in recent years to take the Christmas number one slot. Culture | guardian.co.uk
- For many, the word "businessperson" connotes men in white shirts and stranglehold neckties. بالاترین
- Australia have usually taken a stranglehold by the time each side has batted once. Times, Sunday Times
- Attracting a crowd and holding its attention is something old media companies could do because they had a distribution stranglehold.
