powerhousenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈpaʊə.haʊs/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.haʊs/a country, organization, or person with a lot of influence, power, or energy:
Germany is an economic powerhouse.
The university is no longer the academic powerhouse that it once was.
She's a powerhouse of original ideas and solutions.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- giant
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- paymaster
- pillar
- presidency
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