wielding

[ weel-ding ]
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adjective(used in combination)
  1. exercising power, authority, influence, etc.: Russia is a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council.Discussion focused on the accountability of power-wielding institutions.

  2. using or actively handling a weapon, instrument, etc.: A torch-wielding group of nationalists gathered around the statue for a nighttime protest.

noun
  1. the act of exercising power or authority or of using or handling a weapon, instrument, etc.: Many programs have fallen to the government’s ceaseless wielding of the budget-cutting knife.

Origin of wielding

1
First recorded in 1575–85; wield + -ing2 for the adjective senses; wield + -ing1 for the noun sense

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