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

In Steve McQueen’s dynamic crime thriller, Duvall plays a Chicago politician who has long been a part of the local power structure attempting to hand things off to his son. —Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026

Under the city’s current power structure, the council oversees almost all policy decisions, though the mayor hires and can fire the city administrator responsible for implementing policies, along with the police chief. —Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

The film centers on inmates at an Indonesian correctional facility whose fragile power structures fracture when a new prisoner arrives with a vengeful supernatural entity that hunts those with the darkest aura. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026

There are very real concerns about the power structure with ownership in Tennessee. —Jeff Howe, New York Times, 10 Feb. 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