Idiom
power grab
Meaning
An attempt to gain authority in an oppressive or unscrupulous way.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The manager's new rules look like a power grab.”
“The board members resigned after the CEO attempted a blatant power grab to control the entire company.”
“Historians often view the sudden dissolution of the parliament as a calculated power grab by the regime to silence its political opponents.”
Examples
simple
“The manager's new rules look like a power grab.”
contextual
“The board members resigned after the CEO attempted a blatant power grab to control the entire company.”
complex
“Historians often view the sudden dissolution of the parliament as a calculated power grab by the regime to silence its political opponents.”
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