sway
/sweɪ/ n [U] (ABILITY TO PERSUADE)Definition
› the ability to persuade: As a young musician, he fell under the sway of Louis Armstrong. Large corporations hold sway with Congress.
(Definition of sway n (ABILITY TO PERSUADE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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