DOMINATION

n. 1 authority, control, rule, power, command, influence, sway, supremacy, ascendancy, hegemony, the whip or upper hand, pre-eminence, mastery The tsar's domination lasted for more than thirty years 2 oppression, subjection, repression, suppression, subordination, enslavement, enthralment; dictatorship, despotism, tyranny The Allies finally brought to an end the Fascist domination of Europe