Einfluss — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ascendancy noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- clout noun Influence or power, especially in politics or business.
- impact noun The force of one object striking another; a collision.
- influence noun The power to affect how someone or something develops, behaves, or thinks.
- influx noun A large number of people or things arriving at once.
- leverage noun Power or influence used to get an advantage or achieve a desired result.
- sway verb To move slowly and rhythmically from side to side.
Senses
Einfluss is used for these senses in English:
- ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- clout (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- impact (figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.
- influence An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
- influence A person or thing exerting such power or action.
- influx A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
- leverage (by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
- sway Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
ascendancy — full definition
- noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- noun Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
- noun A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.
clout — full definition
- noun Influence or power, especially in politics or business.
- noun A blow struck with the hand or fist (informal).
- verb To hit someone or something, especially with the fist.