| PREP | having superior power and influence |
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| PREP | much greater in number or influence |
| PREP | weigh more heavily |
| PREP | having superior power and influence |
| PREP | place before another constituent in the sentence |
| PREP | a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word |
| PREP | (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) |
| PREP | (linguistics) of or relating to or formed with a preposition |
| PREP | the object governed by a preposition |
| PREP | a phrase beginning with a preposition |
| PREP | as a preposition |
| PREP | influence (somebody's) opinion in advance |