Definition of "hegemonies" [hegemonies]

• Plural form of hegemony. (noun)

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• "The significance of those remarks was the American recognition that the world was no longer the preserve of two major world powers, but rather that the future was to be shared economically, if not militarily, by hegemonies which had come into being in the shadow of the post-war Pax Americana, namely the hegemonies of the Soviet Union, the European Common Market, Japan, China and the United States of America itself."
• "While the book offers a useful primer for those naïve about how businesses function, it fails to arm readers with nearly enough to outsmart those crafty MBAs or challenge the hegemonies against which Mr. Kaufman rails."
• "Without those scholars more interested in "cultural production" and "hegemonies" than in works of fiction or poetry or drama, other scholars and critics who think studying such works as forms of literary art is a perfectly nice thing to do would be left alone to get on with the task."