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noun
The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: political-science, social-sciences
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noun
Bioenergy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From bio- + power, calque of French biopouvoir, coined by Michel Foucault.
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