- exercising power, authority, influence, etc.: Russia is a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council.Discussion focused on the accountability of power-wielding institutions.
- using or actively handling a weapon, instrument, etc.: A torch-wielding group of nationalists gathered around the statue for a nighttime protest.
- the act of exercising power or authority or of using or handling a weapon, instrument, etc.: Many programs have fallen to the government’s ceaseless wielding of the budget-cutting knife.
