Synonym: bat, hit, knock, rap, strike. Similar words: cloud, cloudy, close, o'clock, closet, closer, loud, flour. Meaning: [klaʊt] n. 1. a target used in archery 2. special advantage or influence 3. a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood 4. (boxing) a blow with the fist. v. strike hard, especially with the fist.
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31) To fix: Using clout or influence to produce a favorable result, usually from an entity of government.
32) That when people get clout this is how they use it.
33) As leader of the Liberal Democrats' largest and wealthiest faction, Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout.
34) Here you begin to know more about who and what carries clout beyond the top management.
35) The improvements that had taken place relied on the voluntary efforts of enthusiasts or political clout expended on particular initiatives.
36) Successful experiments all too often remain marginal,[sentencedict.com] if they have no political clout.
37) But it has no legal clout on such issues as quality of care.
38) For this you received a bag of pork scratchings and a clout round the ear.
39) At local level, control exerted by NGOs varies widely, depending on their philosophy, their economic clout, and individual personalities.
40) Travel: Low wages, but bags of clout Power and perks keep the hotel porter in business.
41) In response, the Guard is resorting to political clout to reverse the proposed reductions.
42) It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
43) That will eventually leave a few very big players with even more clout.
44) This tactic of reference combines an admired or revered position with an effective individual to increase a less powerful person's clout.
45) After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
46) Politicians in the centre worried that the extra financial clout of the provinces could encourage separatists.
47) But the more affluent wanted to show their clout, so the gold card appeared with its larger credit line.
48) N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
49) In this capacity, many used their fame and clout to get difficult and controversial subjects on to the screen.
50) They have the clout to offer the integrated service that cities increasingly want, pulling together collection, disposal and recycling.
51) The report also suggests that multinational users now have the clout to force service providers to cut their prices.
52) I gave her a clout and shoved her over to the big door and went and got back in the car.
53) When defaults proliferate, as they do during and after recessions, the two firms wield enormous clout in financial markets.
54) It was Mellor's political clout, rather than his pale and interesting physique, which became 31-year-old Antonia's aphrodisiac.
55) The successful Liberal party candidate in the last pre-Farclandia election, he has the title but not the clout.
56) Arsenal are sure to monitor developments, but can obviously not match Seville's financial clout.
57) These positions were not held for his own status but to promote the cause of rowing where it needed clout.
58) Then they didn't have enough financial clout to tempt Stuart Pearce from Nottingham Forest.
59) The banks do not carry quite as much clout as they used to.
60) Sometimes we had nothing to say, love had given us such a clout.