great_power has definitions from the fields of politics,geography
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[ noun ] (politics,geography) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

Morrison points_out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet_Union or Red_China , it is the most vulnerable of the great_powers - Europe of_course must be written_off out_of_hand .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Regardless_of rights and wrongs , a population and an area appropriate to a pre World_War_I , great_power have been , following conquest , ruled against their will by a neighboring people , and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike .

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