to come to power
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4.2
- phrasal verb
- /kʌm tə ˈpaʊər/
:
llegar al poder
- But unfortunately, the Nazis came to power.
- Party came to power
- Government comes to power
- Military came to power
You know, Hitler had recently come to power in Germany.
- You know, Hitler had recently come to power in Germany.
- He only loses that that position when Peron comes to power.
- It was in the anarchy and that's when he came to power.
- So basically, based on what happened, and I didn't start from scratch, I came to power after Robin was assassinated.
- If one side is intends to simply change the rules of the game if it comes to power, then it becomes existential.
- He was not crazy at all, not nearly as dangerous as the people that came to power in Iraq after we toppled them.
- This emperor came to power, deposed his predecessor, and got the Bulgars off our back.
- It has been pursuing an ambitious and quite heterogeneous global strategy since Xi Jinping came to power.
- My point is that when people come to power for contingent reasons, they don't stay in power unless they're able to manage it.
- If the opposition came to power, they would need both short and medium term plans to bolster the government's finances and restore the confidence of investors.
- It's not absolving us of the consequences of these jihadi groups coming to power.
- The idea became contaminated with ego. So when these people came to power, their egos
Examples
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Hitler came to power in 1933.
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By the mid-1980s, a new and younger Soviet leadership had come to power.
Academic text (1992) -
A new government came to power.
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In fact, once Trump came to power, people got more engaged in many ways.
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You know, Hitler had recently come to power in Germany.
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Before Hitler came to power, we were nothing.
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Most refugees left Germany early in 1933 when Hitler came to power.
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However, Ethiopia's political future is presently being shaped by a group that came to power without popular consent.
Academic text (1993) -
In October 1917, the Bolsheviks came to power, and with the Revolution, Levinson's world collapsed.
Academic text (1991) -
When the new party came to power, they promised to implement significant reforms for the country.
Synonyms
227
3.5
Start to have power and make decisions about something
222
3.8
Gain control of a company, organization, or government
129
4.4
To take someone's job or position after they leave
98
3.5
Start to control a group or situation and lead others
33
3.8
To begin to control a situation or people's actions
1
8.4
To take an official position such as a throne or presidency
To become king or queen of a country and rule
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the parts: 'come' (arrive/enter a state) combined with 'power' (authority) yields 'arrive into authority' or 'assume control.' The preposition 'to' simply links the verb to the noun, and this composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can predict.
Etymology
Come to power may come from the simple image of someone who comes to the 'seat of power', a palace or government building, and takes control. So it means 'to assume control or authority'.