upper hand

1. 1.

   position of advantage and control

   Synonymswhip hand

   Broadersuperiority

Questions about upper hand

What does upper hand mean?

upper hand means "position of advantage and control".

What is another word for upper hand?

Close synonyms include whip hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is upper hand a common word?

upper hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.