a power in the landold-fashionedIMPORTANT someone who has a lot of power and influence in a country 〔某个国家中〕有权势的人物a power in the land• Even so, it had to grow, to strengthen itself and impose itself as a power in the land.• These courts had existed for centuries already, ever since the medieval Templars had been a power in the land.
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