1A grip around the neck of another person that can kill by asphyxiation if held for long enough.

1. 1.1 Complete or overwhelming control.
   in France, supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If sex workers organize, goes the thinking at the local organization, they feel strong enough to break the stranglehold pimps and policemen have on their lives.
   • A materialist understanding is, instead, an essential step in liberating culture from the stranglehold of commodification.
   • It's another step towards breaking the stranglehold of the big pharmaceutical companies on drug patents.
   • In the 1970s and 1980s, the only way to breach the stranglehold of the state was to move to the West or the Gulf countries, where Indian entrepreneurs excelled.
   • The corporate controlled mass media would essentially have a stranglehold on information distribution if it were not for the Internet.
   • The entire electoral setup has turned into a political stranglehold over the masses, offering no means for working people to express their social discontent.
   • Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a stranglehold of possession would limit their classy forwards.
   • The attempts to free academia and research funds from the stranglehold of methodological materialism can only help the creationist movement.
   • In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold.
   • This stranglehold exercised over public information depends upon the control of the media by a handful of corporations.
   • His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city.
   • The stranglehold placed on the regional economy by cuts to services together with delays to modernisation could be catastrophic.
   • Just when it seemed like the corporations had a stranglehold on the culture industries, counterculture has gone mainstream.
   • You've let your firm grip on practical considerations become a stranglehold.
   • Shankar himself broke away from the stranglehold of feudal culture where the patron's command was total.
   • Caught in an economic stranglehold, the Punjab farmer is sinking deeper into debt with every passing year.
   • Radcliffe had become a rallying point for the country's other top distance runners, who all agreed to turn out in an attempt to break the African stranglehold at this annual festival.
   • Japan is caught in a stranglehold of bad debt and deflation.
   • When one is caught in the stranglehold of addiction, all other concerns become a backdrop to the craving for the next dose, the next big fix.
   • The United States couldn't do enough to put a stranglehold around Afghanistan.