0 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it: --
She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.
1 to have or use power, authority, or influence, or to hold and use a weapon: --
Unlike party support, environmental interest-group pressure can be wielded more broadly on legislators and officials during and between elections.
Power most often is wielded in these accounts by male representatives of the state, of employers, or of the judicial system.
In the absence of such criteria, arguments from 'description versus explanation' can be wielded more or less arbitrarily and as such carry no real force.
Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage from wielding in-uence to exercising power' (p. 9).
No government could afford to ignore the influence democratic politicians and the party press wielded in the public sphere.
In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown.
Our highpowered theoretical tools must not be wielded ignorantly or unfeelingly.
Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions.
