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

The 2026 program of panels and keynotes will kick off with the traditional StepIn session, which will this year explore how power structures, politics, AI and data are reshaping independent cinema. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

Why Iran's power structure complicates a ceasefire Attacks on commercial shipping could become an early test of Iran's wartime balance of power. — Emma Graham, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026

The political violence that tainted the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction era clashes with traditional definitions of terrorism, which typically targets a power structure that such violence seeks to upend. — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

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