dominatedom‧i‧nate /ˈdɒməneɪt $ ˈdɑː-/ ●●○ W3 AWL verb 
Word Origin Examples
The industry is dominated by five multinational companies. New Orleans dominated throughout the game. Her loud voice totally dominated the conversation. Education issues dominated the election campaign.2[transitive] to be larger and more noticeable than anything else in a place: The cathedral dominates the city.—dominating adjective: his dominating characteristic
Word OriginWORD ORIGINdominate
Verb TableOrigin:
1600-1700 Latin dominatus, past participle of dominari ‘to rule’, from dominus ‘lord’VERB TABLE
dominate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | dominate |
| he, she, it | dominates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | dominated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have dominated |
| he, she, it | has dominated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had dominated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will dominate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have dominated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am dominating |
| he, she, it | is dominating | |
| you, we, they | are dominating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was dominating |
| you, we, they | were dominating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been dominating |
| he, she, it | has been dominating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been dominating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be dominating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been dominating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- A giant Ferris wheel dominates the skyline.
- A handful of multinational companies dominate the economy.
- A pair of red-and-gold boots dominated the display.
- a very self-confident man with a dominating manner
- It was obvious that her husband completely dominated her.
- Men still tend to dominate the world of law - hardly any top judges are women.
- Movie directing is a profession dominated by men.
- The fortress on top of the hill still dominates Barcelona harbour.
- The murder trial has dominated the news this week.
- You shouldn't allow your job to dominate your life like that.
- Her office is dominated by a large oak table where she spreads out her work.
- Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.
- It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
- It was invented in June 1983, but not until 1986 did it dominate the mortgage market.
- Massive database management may be one area that could be dominated by optical technology.
- The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.
Longman Language Activatorto completely control a situation► dominate
Collocations to be the most powerful or important person or thing in a situation and therefore able to control it completely: · Men still tend to dominate the world of law - hardly any top judges are women.· You shouldn't allow your job to dominate your life like that.· A handful of multinational companies dominate the economy.
► monopolize also monopolise British to completely control an activity, situation etc and unfairly prevent other people or organizations from having any control over it at all: · All night he monopolized the conversation, not letting anyone else get a word in.· The company has monopolized the building market in this area.
► monopoly a situation in which one person or organization unfairly has complete control: have a monopoly: · It is not good for consumers if one company has a monopoly in any area of trade.monopoly of: · It was not easy to persuade the monarchy to let go of its monopoly of power.monopoly over: · Within a few years, the company had a virtual monopoly over all trade with India.
► stranglehold total power and control over a situation, organization etc - use this especially when you think this is not fair or right: have a stranglehold on something: · For years, two giant recording companies have had a stranglehold on the CD market.break the stranglehold (=to stop someone having complete control): · Satellite TV should at last break the stranglehold of the big national TV channels.
► have total/complete control to control a situation completely: · In modern politics, no one political group can expect to have total control.have total/complete control over: · The head of department has complete control over the budget.
► hold sway if a person or group holds sway , they have the most power or influence over the people in a particular situation, place, or organization: · The old communist party still holds sway in many rural areas.hold sway over: · This all happened long ago, when priests held sway over the majority of the Irish people.
to completely control someone's behaviour► dominate to have a very powerful influence on another person and control the way that they behave: · It was obvious that her husband completely dominated her.· a very self-confident man with a dominating manner
► domineering someone who is domineering always wants to control what other people do and never considers what they want themselves: · Hattie was struggling to break free from her domineering father.· He's arrogant and domineering and never listens to anyone.· My mother has a very domineering personality.
► walk all over informal to treat someone very badly by doing whatever you want to do, without caring about what they want or feel: · Why do you let him just walk all over you, have you no pride?· It's important not to let colleagues walk all over you at work.
► have a hold on/over to be able to control someone because you have some emotional power over them, for example, because you know their secrets or weak points: · He seems to have a very powerful hold over the women in his life.· It's been two years since we divorced, but he still has a hold on me.
► have somebody in your power to be able to control someone because you have emotional power over them - used especially in literature: · At last she had McAdams in her power!
to be much higher than other things► tower over/above · The great cathedral towers over the rest of the main square.· Life-size dinosaur models tower above visitors to the Prehistoric Park.
► dwarf if something dwarfs other things, it is so big that it makes the other things around it seem very small: · The ship came slowly into the harbour, dwarfing all the surrounding boats.· The smaller, older houses are dwarfed by the new apartment blocks and hotels.
► dominate if a particular building, structure, or tree dominates an area or place, it is much higher and much easier to see than everything else, so that it seems to be the most important thing: · The fortress on top of the hill still dominates Barcelona harbour.· A giant Ferris wheel dominates the skyline.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dominate the headlines
Word family (=to be the story that is most often reported in newspapers)· News from Iraq continued to dominate the headlines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► still· When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.· Even so, perception still dominates reasoning.· Feelings and states of mind still dominate discussions of human behavior for many reasons.· This weird, wonderful concept still dominates Western culture and overshadows world civilization.· The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.· Apple still dominates several computer markets, including graphics and publishing.· Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.· But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
NOUN► area· Inland the wild and vast Presely Hills which dominate the area are well worth exploring.· From then on their superior passing dominated large areas of the match.· It is likened locally to a stranded whale, and dominates the area.
► century· The concept of equality has dominated the twentieth century.· Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier.· So this experiment will come to dominate the 21st century.
► city· She thought it majestic, dominating the city without overwhelming it.· Arriving in Saigon in February 1859, his squadron of nine warships and transports managed to dominate the city within two weeks.· The greatest of the picturesque stations had dominated their cities.· It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.· The Grand Palace dominates the city, with its gleaming spires piercing the skyline and its Buddha statues gazing serenely into space.· In Siena, where the Palio takes the place of cricket, it's around every corner and dominates the city.
► debate· And yet it dominates the debate.· This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate.· Here we publish edited answers to some of the questions that are dominating the current political debate.· Health care dominated the public debate in the presidential campaign four years ago.· However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.· The issues of race and culture dominated the debate over the bill, especially during an attempt by Rep.· Of the three methods being considered, this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water.· Although considerations of cost should be considered, they should not dominate the debate.
► economy· Meanwhile for the transnational companies that dominate the global coffee economy, the slump in coffee prices is generating windfall gains.· Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.· Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy.· This would be a radical departure from the subsidy system that has dominated the agricultural economy for more than 50 years.· The chaebol, the chosen instruments of the government, dominate the economy.· Food also provides pleasure and social interaction; it dominates world economies and political systems.· World markets dominated their economies, and they lacked the means for independent national economic development.· The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy, they believe.
► event· In its next, more public phase, it is likely to be dominated as much by events as by concepts.· There are golfers who have dominated certain events with consecutive victories.· Calls for the restoration of the death penalty were applauded loudly, but did not dominate the event as in past years.· As usual, Annadale will be expected to dominate the middle distance events despite the absence of Davy Wilson through injury.
► firm· Traditionally the criminal work in the busy city magistrates' courts had been dominated by three firms.
► game· Cowdrey once more dominated the one-day game.· Small talent gaps allow the stars to dominate the game.· Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.· Neither are intended to be dominated by games.· The turbulent and volatile consumer market is dominated by games, few of which embody any real information content.
► government· It was as patriarch that Michael Romanov's father, Filaret, dominated the government between 1618 and 1633.· After his death most of these plans foundered and Trucchi no longer dominated the government.· As well as being deficient in mass support, the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves.· Out West, all-powerful railroad interests dominated state governments and even owned several state legislatures outright.· The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.· It was Daley and Bilandic who had dominated city government in the beginning years of the block grant program.
► group· For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen.· The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.· Farming interests always tend to dominate the groups appointed by the councils.
► industry· For example, the industrial giants who dominate the chemical industry have large capital investments in petrochemicals.· General Instrument dominates the cable television industry with its scrambling and de-scrambling technology.· Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry?· Today, his company, Ian Greer Associates, dominates the Westminster lobbying industry.
► issue· But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.· Three policy issues will dominate the early 1990s.· However, both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated, with two particular issues dominating the debate.· In that report, organizers listed the five big issues that dominated discussions.· In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda, with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.· In the debate about the I-way architecture, one issue dominates all others: universal access.
► landscape· In narrow valleys surface boulders dominate the landscape.· Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape.· The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.· Beinn Eighe still dominated the landscape as we headed for Gairloch.· Of course poverty among older people predates retirement and this group have dominated the landscape of poverty since it was first described systematically.· Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes, why?· Private land dominates the nation's landscape and is held by a small fraction of its population.· Thus the extra-tropical zone of former pronounced valley formation was dominated by relict landscape features both glacial and periglacial.
► life· Exercise, measuring food and then eating it, dominated my life.· Some let work so dominate their lives that it forces out spouse, children and leisure.· If any single factor dominated the lives of nineteenth-century workers it was insecurity.· She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life.· First it was Grandad Oaks who dominated his life and then it was Father.· Stewart loved the trips to Avon and the social whirl that dominated his life.· Physiology dominated Waller's adult life.· His parents were members of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren and their strict religion dominated his early life.
► male· There are very stereotypical male-dominated circumstances.· The angry white males who dominated the 1994 test certainly made an impact.· Except hard work to get where I am in a field where males dominate.
► market· Over the years they have come to dominate their geographic market.· No one trend dominates the market, but chenille continues to be a heavy favorite.· Table 17.6 shows how the banks dominate the personal lending market.· Apple still dominates several computer markets, including graphics and publishing.· It can be possessed by other types of seller, or by buyers if a few of them dominate the market.· First, the logic of private competition was to replace small firms by larger firms which could dominate and control markets.· Worse, they could take our products or product enhancements and then dominate the market for these prod-ucts.
► news· Newspapers were dominated by news of the war.· The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos.· Worldwide, two devastating earthquakes dominated the news.· The report dominated much of the news media for several days.· The newspapers were dominated by news and analysis of the leadership election.
► party· The co-ops have longstanding political ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which dominates the government.· When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together.· Dole, raised in a Democratic family, registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics.· Ministers will insist that, despite the image management, the party remains dominated by the left.· The traditional Asquithian-Liberal section of the party, which dominated the constituencies believed in the need to reiterate the established Liberal shibboleths.
► politics· So far, the absolutist position has dominated Republican presidential politics.· Here, life is dominated by politics.· For nearly forty-five years, the two Superpowers had dominated international politics, alliances, and trade arrangements.· At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics.· The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.· The Conservatives had dominated Hampshire county politics for over a century.· In Iowa, where the antiabortion movement dominates Republican politics, Buchanan moved to stake out the strongest position on the subject.
► room· A magnificent four-poster bed dominates this room.· He runs around the sideline during games and dominates the locker room when the games are over.· In his mid forties, he stood six feet and his aura of authority dominated the room.· A large pot-bellied stove dominates the room.· It dominated the room so that he and Alice Mair stood for a moment, silently regarding it.· A wide circle of folding chairs dominated the room.· A long, carved oak table dominated the room, heavy chairs to match.· But the four-poster dominated this room, too, draped in grey and gold.
► scene· Put in context, these people do not dominate the scene, but it is good to be aware of them.· His particular joy was the fine copper beech tree which dominated the scene.· An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene, refusing to be ignored.· Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.· In the best cereal-growing areas, arable farming may dominate the scene, with animals and grass taking second place.· Her loud voice, her flashing eyes and her rich, throaty laughter dominated the scene.· Coal no longer dominated the national economic scene.
► sector· This is hardly surprising since display technology is expected to dominate many sectors of the electronics industry, both industrial and consumer.· A slightly different format for group affiliation exists in single industry organizations that dominate many of the sectors producing consumer goods.· Solihull's Discovery - one of a threesome that dominates every sector of the 4 × 4 market except the fun bugs.· The northern industrial regions, in contrast, were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion.
► skyline· The House of the Republic dominates the skyline of Bucharest not so much through its height but its mass.· Nineteenth-century prints show how it dominated the skyline and the area around.· Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline.· Anyone who has used Glasgow Airport can not fail to have noticed the huge domed building dominating Paisley's skyline.· The site chosen for the painting is a view across the bays of the dormant volcano Rangitoto which dominates Auckland's skyline.
► system· The result has been that the system of social insurance does not dominate the system of welfare benefits organized by the state.· Another layer of complexity is added when man-made brainpower industries that depend upon research and development and human skills dominate the System.· Unix, House believes, will dominate the open systems market for the next five years.
► thought· In Britain studies of elections show that issues other than race dominate the thoughts of the black electorate.· Trapped in her own loneliness, suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts.· Money, in fact, dominates the thoughts of many of those involved in Galapagos affairs.· So dogmatic and authoritarian was Galen that his ideas dominated medical thought for many centuries.· Thus the idea of treatment by opposites came to dominate medical thought and does so till this day.
► world· It dominated the world of man and was represented by the celestial firmament.· Never again will the United States dominate the world economy as it did in the early Cold War.· It also points up the dangers of dithering in a fast-paced Microsoft-dominated world.· We are fortunate that the super-power that remains has no instinct or appetite for dominating the world by oppression and force.
VERB► come· Later, Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre.· How come he needs to dominate me to define his manhood?· But it was Eusebius who rounded off these hints into an image which came to dominate fourth-century minds.· As the news of layoffs and plant closings came to dominate the headlines and the airwaves, consumer spending dropped off sharply.· Increasingly, the town planning movement came to be dominated by an institutionalized professional ideology.· Alternatively, from the mid-1970s, a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party.· In practice, the executive frequently comes to dominate the assembly, as in Britain.
► continue· Consequently, they have continued to dominate the style of psychiatric practice in many districts.· But the abortion issue continued to dominate informal discussions.· Transpower, or development of it, continue to dominate Mizuno development.· Disney continues to dominate video-cassette sales.· Will videodisc technology continue to dominate in these applications?· The Democrats in the 1980s have continued to dominate congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative elections.
► tend· One Conservative Member complained that ministers tended to dominate on regional programmes, while local Members were squeezed out.· Many would agree that in the past the latter have tended to dominate policymaking in Phoenix and in Arizona generally.· Some group members will inevitably be shy whilst others will tend to dominate the discussions.· She was an excellent photographer herself, but political activity tended to dominate her life.· Men tended to dominate these movements, both personally and intellectually.· Almost all breeds are here ... although Border collies tend to dominate the proceedings.· Functions tend to dominate the scene with notions appearing in a separate sub-plot in a relatively minor role.· Women tend to dominate your literary landscapes, why?
WORD FAMILYnoundominationadjectivedominatingverbdominate
1[intransitive, transitive] to control someone or something or to have more importance than other people or things: The industry is dominated by five multinational companies. New Orleans dominated throughout the game. Her loud voice totally dominated the conversation. Education issues dominated the election campaign.2[transitive] to be larger and more noticeable than anything else in a place: The cathedral dominates the city.—dominating adjective: his dominating characteristic