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:
Moreover, the nature of this stranglehold was extremely tight.
But we should not let the leverage provided by patents become a stranglehold on progress.
This measure aimed to break the stranglehold that many plantation stores held on workers and their communities, especially during the dead season.
The annulment decision, it seems, is necessary evidence of the desire by certain segments of society to maintain their stranglehold on power.
For society, the society of science, read today the authoritarian discipline exercised by the university system and the stranglehold it imposes over career promotion and research opportunity in science.
Clearly, licensers could not exert a stranglehold over what appeared in print, but they could have a decisive influence over what appeared with the full panoply of mainstream legitimacy.
The attacks are therefore a way of trying to impose an even tighter stranglehold on the communities that the paramilitaries purport to defend.
The food production chain is increasingly in the stranglehold of the food multinationals.