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dominant Definition In English

0 more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type:
- You can have a dominant personality without being a bully.
- The females breed with dominant males that establish and defend territories.
- The gene for brown eyes is dominant.
- Unemployment will be a dominant issue at the next election.
- a dominant military power
1 more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type:
- For years the Democrats were the dominant party in Congress.
- a dominant personality
2 more important, powerful, or successful than other people, companies, etc.:
- dominant market share/position The company is well run, with a dominant market share in many snack-food categories.
- dominant force/player For a long time Detroit was the dominant force in the American car industry.
- The question was whether cable or wireless would become dominant.

Further consideration suggests an alternative interpretation, that when the dominant effect of social relationship quality is controlled, greater income does not produce greater personal wellbeing.
Both sides were, however, fully controlled by the dominant cultural-historical paradigm of those days.
Since postmodern texts are meant to be obstructive to any dominant discourse, they do not even favour a (potentially hegemonic) anti-colonialist position.
In so doing they have received widespread support within the discipline, and have established what is today the dominant paradigm for discussing literary value.
Why should it have come to be so dominant and why should we be so surprised, even so horrified at the extent of its prevalence?
Over half the women said that men had been dominant in their organizations in the interwar period.
Men had no reason to justify their political activities in gender terms since they were the dominant group.
Unfortunately, in many textbooks, the contributions and influences of dominant cultures monopolize the text, and the contributions and influences from less-dominant cultures are marginalized.