0 a position of complete control that prevents something from developing: --
1 complete control over a market, an industry, etc. that does not allow fair competition from other businesses: --
They recognise that the manufacturers' stranglehold is almost a thing of the past.
There will certainly be no stranglehold, neither is it the intention that there should be.
They are crucial in breaking that familiar stranglehold of suspicion which we all know exists.
Its faithful are perfectly aware that, once it is launched, democratisation will inevitably and very quickly put an end to their stranglehold.
I wonder whether that in vestment will be forthcoming if the dockers get a stranglehold on this enterprising and courageous port.
European farmers are, in truth, caught in a stranglehold that both hems them in and that hastens their extinction.
The nominees of big business are getting a stranglehold on the life of the people of this country.
The food production chain is increasingly in the stranglehold of the food multinationals.
