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Definition

power vacuum noun

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a condition that exists when someone has lost control of something and no one has replaced them
She was quick to fill the power vacuum that was left by the sudden death of the managing director.

(Definition of power vacuum noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)