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power chain

American  

noun

  1. an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.


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But Forgent’s electrical equipment sits further upstream in the power chain.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

This was their ride up the power chain.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2016

Finally, whistle-blowers or low-level functionaries, with no links in the power chain, leak for personal reasons or to call attention to activities that they think are wrong.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2013

“The Boss” is structured as a rising tide of treachery, the characters coolly sacrificing their closest associates to trade their way up the power chain.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2011

It would be the day of doom did some malicious power chain me to this brainless, soulless, heartless creature.

From A Day of Fate by Roe, Edward Payson

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