Synonyms of whip hand

whip hand

noun

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as in advantage

the more favorable condition or position in a competition

unquestionably the company has the whip hand in negotiations with the labor union

Synonyms & Similar Words

• advantage
• edge
• upper hand
• high ground
• opportunity
• odds
• coign of vantage
• inside track
• stead
• jump
• vantage
• catbird seat
• pull
• bulge
• better
• start
• drop
• privilege
• margin
• lead
• head start
• leg up
• superiority
• allowance
• ascendency
• dominance
• benefit
• ascendancy
• transcendence
• predominance
• precedence
• supremacy
• mastery
• prerogative
• foothold
• preference
• transcendency
• seniority
• command
• windfall
• godsend
• blessing
• break
• felicity
• manna
• boon

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liability
• disadvantage
• penalty
• strike
• minus
• handicap
• drawback
• detriment
• disability
• inequality
• imbalance
• disparity
• let
• failing
• impairment
• interference
• stop
• obstruction
• shortcoming
• check
• obstacle
• stranglehold
• catch
• bar
• hindrance
• impediment
• rub
• embarrassment
• unevenness
• hurdle
• hitch
• setback
• shackle
• crimp
• clog
• trammel
• lurch
• manacle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of whip hand

Microsoft’s whip hand, more than anything, else, comes down to cold hard cash. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023

The failure of the ‘red wave’ to materialize means that an old-fashioned socialist will have the whip hand over health care for the next two years. —Joel Zinberg, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022

The media have the whip hand over Democrats, and the results are a horror. —Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Sep. 2021

Hence, despite Twitter's poison pill and a staggered board, Musk always had the whip hand. —Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022

Amazon has been using the cameras to monitor social distancing between workers during the pandemic — just one of the ways in which computers hold the whip hand in this workplace. —Sarah O'Connor, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2022

In a chilling report released a few weeks ago about Hollywood’s subordinate relationship to Beijing, PEN America described the forces that have given China the whip hand. —Rich Lowry, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020

The president will be held responsible for whatever happens, so House Democrats have the whip hand in any negotiation. —Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Mar. 2020

In fact, from the start the EU saw itself as holding whip hand in the talks, convinced that a failure, while bad for both sides, would be worse for the Brits. —Laurence Norman, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018