| 单词 | occupying power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoccupying power occupying power n. a state whose army occupies (part of) a foreign country. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation > types of ocean power1713 colonial power1801 sea power1849 occupying power1866 superpower1911 1866 H. Wheaton Elements Internat. Law (ed. 8) iv. 347 Belligerent occupation implies a firm possession, so that the occupying power can execute its will either by force or by acquiescence of the people. 1959 Observer 22 Mar. 1/2 Nuclear weapons..would be in the hands of the occupying Powers and never pass into German control. 1975 J. Cleary Safe House i. 26 The need to show the Occupying Powers that..they were not going to favour Nazis and ex-Nazis. 1981 S. Ackroyd & J. A. Hughes Data Coll. in Context iii. 31 [The census] undertaken by Augustus Caesar, which affected the..birth of Christ, and the Domesday survey compiled at the instigation of William I..were attempts by an occupying power to extend its control over a subject population. < as lemmas |
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