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

There are reasonable, logical explanations for this abrupt change in power structures. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

There were other ways that the company’s power structures, and my own precarious place within them, began to come into focus. — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

Witnesses argued that Maduro’s removal has not dismantled the regime’s power structure. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Rodríguez Castro may or may not ascend to the very top of Cuba’s official power structure. — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 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