I'll be the dominant partner, the one on top.

They'd worked well together, in bed and out, but he'd always been the dominant partner.

The dominant partner is usually a man, but could also be another woman, or more than one person.

It sounds like she's the dominant partner in that relationship.

Such men are said to be "riding with" their respective dominant partners.

"After all, people understood Chrysler wasn't going to be the dominant partner."

By the latter half of the 1970s Sally was clearly the dominant partner in the consortium.

Once the dominant partner got the other to kill, it became too difficult for the weaker one to walk away.

Though the countries were in theory equal, the larger Poland became the dominant partner.

Already I felt the dominant partner in our relationship.