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:
On his left, he wields the compass and square of architecture and the tools of sculpting and painting - hammer, inkpot and quill - and a painting.
The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader.
The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them.
The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema.
There have been comparatively few attempts to explore ageism and the forms it takes or how it is wielded to uphold inequalities based upon age.
In this they merely supplemented the already considerable physical force wielded by the official border security force.
Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions.
Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions.
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