Definition of "major power" [major power]

• A nation powerful enough to influence events throughout the world. (noun)

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• "The GPA should have had its own consulting herpetologist, who could have pointed out that tree snakes, unlike squirrels, don’t have claws; that they ascend by enwrapping, and that a major power pole is just too fat to be enwrapped."
• "Most of its major power facilities lie exposed in the foot­hills and mountains."