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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

  1. noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
  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 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

  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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