world power Meaning of "world power"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

Usage(s):

  1. With an iron will--and at significant cost to the principles that free nations prize--Putin has brought Russia back as a world power.
  2. In world power politics, the East has as many designs on us as the West.
  3. On his watch, America became a great world power.
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