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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stranglehold
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
break
▪ Home rule and proportional representation are the means by which we shall break the stranglehold of Westminster.
▪ That marks a victory for Microsoft and breaks a stranglehold that Netscape was putting on the telecommunications industry.
▪ He was more instrumental than any other independent producer in breaking the stranglehold of the major studios.
▪ We can, if we will it, break the stranglehold of the corporate king who uses our airways to control us.
▪ The New Hope will break their stranglehold.
▪ Little can be done to break this stranglehold until banks meet the needs of the low-paid.
▪ Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold, midway through the first-half, when John Polston moved up to rattle a post.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For years, two giant recording companies have had a stranglehold on the CD market.
▪ Satellite TV should at last break the stranglehold of the big national TV channels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All is slanted to maintaining the Establishment stranglehold on vast tracts of land for their own selfish playgrounds.
▪ Even now, Marie could sense that the stranglehold of her rage had been broken.
▪ Farmers with reasonable sized holdings were in a matter of years freed from the stranglehold of money lenders.
▪ He is down, but his stranglehold on the retail jewellery scene means that no one should say he is out.
▪ That marks a victory for Microsoft and breaks a stranglehold that Netscape was putting on the telecommunications industry.
▪ The balance of payments has become a stranglehold.
Wiktionary
stranglehold

n. A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.

WordNet
stranglehold
  1. n. complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a strangelhold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" [syn: chokehold, throttlehold]

  2. a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

Wikipedia
Stranglehold (video game)

Stranglehold is a third-person shooter developed by Midway Games' Chicago studio, released in late 2007 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is Midway's first game to use Unreal Engine 3, and was developed in collaboration with John Woo.

Stranglehold is the sequel to Woo's 1992 Hong Kong action film, Hard Boiled, and stars Chow Yun-fat in a reprisal of his role as hard-boiled cop Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Stranglehold is the first project on which Woo and Chow have collaborated since Hard Boiled.

A sequel to Stranglehold, entitled Gun Runner, was in the works prior to Midway's financial demise but was ultimately cancelled.

Stranglehold (Ted Nugent song)

"Stranglehold" is a single and the first track from Ted Nugent's self-titled 1975 album. The vocals are performed not by Nugent, but by Derek St. Holmes. However, the "Sometimes you wanna get higher" verse is sung by Ted himself. In Martin Popoff's book, "Epic Ted Nugent", Nugent admits that the song "Stranglehold" was co-written by Rob Grange, yet he never received a share for co-writer. "Stranglehold" would set the stage for Nugent's career, a guitar-driven track over eight minutes long - its famous guitar solo having been recorded in a single take.

Stranglehold (disambiguation)

A stranglehold is a grappling hold that strangles the opponent.

Stranglehold may also refer to:

Stranglehold (Paul McCartney song)

"Stranglehold" is a song by Paul McCartney, the former bass guitarist, Singer and Songwriter with The Beatles. The track is credited as being written by McCartney and 10cc guitarist Eric Stewart, and is on his sixth studio solo album Press to Play. It was issued as single exclusively in the US and reached number 81. The b-side featured the remix of "Angry" by Larry Alexander taken from the previous single " Pretty Little Head"

Stranglehold (Ghost Whisperer)

"Stranglehold", is the episode before the last of Ghost Whisperer, season three. It originally aired on May 9, 2008 on CBS in United States. All main cast appears.

Stranglehold (1931 film)

Stranglehold is a 1931 British drama film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Isobel Elsom, Garry Marsh and Derrick De Marney.

Stranglehold (2014 film)

Stranglehold is a 2014 science-fiction drama film written, produced and directed by Dave Ghollish. Luke Edwards stars.

Usage examples of "stranglehold".

I used my feet to push the attached torso the other way, thus dislocating it with a satisfying rubbery feel, and bashed my head back into the face of the person trying to get a stranglehold on me.

Saddam strangleholds over aspects of Iraqi society that he never possessed in the past.

The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer through its history.

Swallowing hard, Cru touched his neck unconsciously where thick layers of powder masked the heavy bruises from Rabban's recent stranglehold.

Swallowing hard, Cru touched his neck unconsciously where thick layers of powder masked the heavy bruises from Rabban's recent stranglehold.

I should have realized that the Ehleen Church would never forget, never forgive me for weakening their stranglehold on their adherents, for discrediting their motives and for depriving them of most of their ill-gotten gains.

Dusky variegated leaves hunkered against a stem that wound in a stranglehold around the smooth trunk of a balsam fir.

The evidence of the century points to just one conclusion The Fremen army that swept through the empire during Paul's Jihad was, a hundred years later, a broken reed, top heavy with bureaucrats, dependent on local support, and often manned by sick and un willing conscripts It may well be that its total strength declined, too, for Leto never allowed a census on Arrakis, and the strength of his military mm was the most closely guarded of secrets Had it not been for Leto's spice based stranglehold on die Spac ing Guild and nis consequent absolute monopoly on transportation and communication, the Fremen army could not have secured a single planet against a determined .

Larger and more heavily armed than Pickering's ship, Canandaigua was stationed one Mile further to sea as part of the stranglehold to intercept commercial ships attempting to supply the Confederacy.

He came up behind Lambreth, got a stranglehold with his right arm, and plunged the chisel in Lambreth's exposed throat with his good left hand.

He didn't want to give up clinical medicine, just loosen the stranglehold it had on his life.

Eventually peace between the Kingdom andKesh would be achieved, and when that happened the profitable luxurytrade would again be open, and now with Jacob Esterbrook dead, therewould be no stranglehold on trade with the South.

Flandry supposed that the constant presence of some member of the governing board was a survival of earlier days when Biocontrol's stranglehold wasn't quite so firm.

But they were only a handful, the remnants of men who had pioneered Fenris before the companies fastened their strangleholds on the port and the three-quarters-frozen world.

I had had experience with the martial arts, including judo, and I well knew the nature of the Osae-waza, or art of holding, and the Shime-waza, or art of strangleholds.