"hard power" meaning in English

See hard power in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: hard powers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hard power (countable and uncountable, plural hard powers)
  1. (politics) The use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-hard_power-en-noun-MYcsb8o1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Topics: government, politics
  2. A state having this kind of power. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hard_power-en-noun-4Txhv3Hl

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hard power meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hard powers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hard power (countable and uncountable, plural hard powers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_power-en-noun-MYcsb8o1",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "economic",
          "economic"
        ],
        [
          "bodies",
          "body"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) The use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A state having this kind of power."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_power-en-noun-4Txhv3Hl",
      "links": [
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hard power"
  ],
  "word": "hard power"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hard powers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hard power (countable and uncountable, plural hard powers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "economic",
          "economic"
        ],
        [
          "bodies",
          "body"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) The use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A state having this kind of power."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hard power"
  ],
  "word": "hard power"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.