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It's steem power that has been delegated to your account. It will add to your voting power but cannot be withdrawn. It's essentially steem power that has been lent to you.

Apparently various whales do this to try to level the playing field a bit on steemit - trying to expand the scope and perspectives of steemit from a macro view.

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