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

As digital technologies reshape global power structures, the viability of prosocial AI will determine whether smaller nations can maintain technological sovereignty or must choose between competing digital empires. —Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

This panel brings together three filmmakers whose works confront entrenched power structures through both content and form. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025

Both Aleksic and Holliday note that the way slurs work — in these stories and in real life — is by carrying an assumed power structure along with them. —Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025

The irony for Trump is the fervor of the conviction that Epstein’s crimes are the rotten core of the U.S. political power structure. —Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025

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