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dominance
noun(dom-i-nance)
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control,
Examples:
Her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her.
dominance
noun(dom-i-nance)
superior development of one side of the body
Synonyms: laterality,
dominance
noun(dom-i-nance)
the power or right to give orders or make decisions
Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so,
dominance
noun(dom-i-nance)
the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

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