Today’s “Word of the Day” is “tentacles“ and it is a noun meaning “(figuratively) a gradual, secret & dangerous spread of influence/control that some organizations/systems have; (literally) long, thin, flexible parts like arms of octopus like (sea) animals.
Example Sentence: Yet today, our understanding of corporate power has been enfeebled (weaken). Through years of unchallenged mergers and abuses, companies have grown bigger and bigger, spreading their tentacles across multiple sectors and subcontractors and dominating entire markets.
This word is present in The Guardian article Monopoly power is running wild. We need tough competition laws to rein it in and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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