supremacy

supremacy
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ absolute, total
▪ unchallenged
▪ global, world
▪ air, military, naval
▪ male, white
▪ economic, political
▪ racial
▪ judicial (AmE, law)
VERB + SUPREMACY
▪ enjoy (esp. BrE), have
▪

a period when the British enjoyed supremacy in international trade

▪ lose
▪ battle for, fight for, struggle for, vie for
▪ assert, establish, gain
▪ acknowledge, uphold
▪

to uphold the supremacy of the country's own laws

▪ give sb/sth
▪

Coal gave the region industrial supremacy.

▪ maintain
▪ challenge
PREPOSITION
▪ supremacy in
▪

the battle for supremacy in the world economic markets

▪ supremacy of
▪

the supremacy of international law

▪ supremacy over
▪

By the end of the war, the warlord had established total supremacy over all his rivals.

▪ supremacy within
▪

factions fighting for supremacy within the Church

PHRASES
▪ a battle for supremacy, a fight for supremacy, a struggle for supremacy
▪ a challenge to sb/sth's supremacy, a threat to sb/sth's supremacy
▪ a symbol of supremacy

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