Einfluss — meaning in English

English meaning

• ascendancy noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
• 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

1. noun A position of dominant power or control over others.
2. 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.
3. noun A measure of an ecosystem's ability to withstand disturbance, based on the size and structure of its network of feeding relationships.

clout — full definition

1. noun Influence or power, especially in politics or business.
2. noun A blow struck with the hand or fist (informal).
3. verb To hit someone or something, especially with the fist.

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