power structure

noun

1

: a group of persons having control of an organization : establishment

2

: the hierarchical interrelationships existing within a controlling group

Examples of power structure in a Sentence

The parade won't happen without the approval of the city's power structure.

Women in the company are struggling for equality against the male power structure.

They are making changes to the power structure of the church.

Recent Examples on the Web

Katz said the military has long occupied a vulnerable position inside the Russian power structure. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026

Now, with aftershocks still rattling damaged cities and thousands of people displaced, some analysts warn the government’s handling of the disaster may be accelerating public disillusionment with the Chavista power structure. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026

Anyway, things continue to be tenuous at The Bear, as Sydney, Richie, Natalie and Carmy are forced to adjust to their new status quo, with a wholly undefined new power structure. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

The obstacle is the organization itself — the informal power structures, the processes people have built professional identities around, the quiet resistance to anything that redistributes how work and influence flows. — Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for power structure

• infrastructure
• macrostructure
• microstructure
• nanostructure
• superstructure
• ultrastructure
• restructure
• substructure