Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
complete power over a person or situation;
- Example: "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"- Example: "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"[syn: stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
throttlehold
n 1: complete power over a person or situation; "corporations
have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a
chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"
[syn: stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold]