authority

[zone: 1, ipm: 369.44]

Definitions

  • the people or an organisation who have the power to make decisions or who have a particular area of responsibility in a country or region
  • the power or right to do something

Examples

  1. He is king of Ireland, I suppose, although parliament is allowed to have authority there.
  2. The highest imperial authority was the Inca, considered to be the son of the sun, who had absolute powers, in a system of government which was a theocratic monarchy.
  3. During the last year a serious collision took place between the Chinese authorities and the British subjects at Canton.
  4. The territory was annexed by the French Republic in 1888, and was placed under the authority of another French colony, New Caledonia.
  5. In such monarchies, political authority is exercised by elected politicians, and the political process runs according to democratic procedures.

Collocations

  • exercise [score: 10.01, freq: 171] (exercise authority)
  • supreme [score: 9.6, freq: 155] (the supreme authority)
  • royal [score: 9.4, freq: 231] (the royal authority)
  • pope [score: 9.3, freq: 8] (the pope's authority)
  • king [score: 9.06, freq: 48] (the king's authority)
  • acknowledge [score: 8.93, freq: 68] (acknowledged the authority)
  • legislative [score: 8.86, freq: 92] (legislative authority)
  • sovereign [score: 8.74, freq: 85] (the sovereign authority)
  • assert [score: 8.73, freq: 54] (asserting imperial authority)
  • Henry [score: 8.72, freq: 8] (Henry's authority)
  • local [score: 8.71, freq: 103] (the local authorities)
  • Sultan [score: 8.71, freq: 6] (Sultan's authority)
  • parliament [score: 8.71, freq: 46] (authority of parliament)
  • magistrate [score: 8.63, freq: 26] (authority of magistrate)
  • government [score: 8.59, freq: 6] (the government's executive authority)
  • Crown [score: 8.53, freq: 26] (authority of the Crown)
  • legal [score: 8.48, freq: 80] (legal authority)
  • imperial [score: 8.46, freq: 120] (imperial authority)
  • absolute [score: 8.46, freq: 75] (absolute authority)
  • senate [score: 8.37, freq: 22] (authority of a senate)
  • executive [score: 8.36, freq: 60] (the executive authority)
  • establish [score: 8.33, freq: 84] (establish his authority)
  • delegate [score: 8.19, freq: 32] (delegated authority)
  • queen [score: 8.19, freq: 7] (the queen's authority)
  • central [score: 8.15, freq: 58] (central authority)
  • maintain [score: 8.15, freq: 64] (maintained his authority)
  • possess [score: 8.15, freq: 55] (possessed great authority)
  • derive [score: 8.14, freq: 41] (derive their authority)
  • usurp [score: 8.11, freq: 32] (usurped authority)
  • Buonaparte [score: 8.01, freq: 6] (Buonaparte's authority)
  • municipal [score: 7.94, freq: 43] (the municipal authorities)
  • sovereign [score: 7.94, freq: 21] (authority of the sovereign)
  • restore [score: 7.84, freq: 43] (authority was restored)
  • military [score: 7.67, freq: 94] (the military authority)
  • administrative [score: 7.64, freq: 39] (the administrative authority)
  • weaken [score: 7.59, freq: 24] (weakening the authority)
  • exert [score: 7.59, freq: 23] (exert authority)
  • extend [score: 7.5, freq: 30] (authority extended)
  • support [score: 7.45, freq: 19] (supported by the authority)
  • issue [score: 7.42, freq: 13] (issues by an authority)
  • Emperor [score: 7.37, freq: 8] (Emperor's authority)
  • interpose [score: 7.35, freq: 18] (interpose authority)
  • acquire [score: 7.29, freq: 27] (acquired such authority)
  • publish [score: 7.13, freq: 10] (published by authority)
  • ratify [score: 6.66, freq: 6] (ratified by the authority)
  • grant [score: 6.5, freq: 7] (the German occupation authorities granted a small military)

Thesaurus

  • power [score: 0.399, freq: 28019]
  • government [score: 0.343, freq: 28006]
  • right [score: 0.306, freq: 11777]
  • law [score: 0.304, freq: 16874]
  • influence [score: 0.286, freq: 7000]
  • rule [score: 0.281, freq: 7204]
  • force [score: 0.274, freq: 15431]
  • interest [score: 0.272, freq: 10335]
  • order [score: 0.261, freq: 20371]
  • state [score: 0.256, freq: 21685]
  • control [score: 0.254, freq: 4508]
  • court [score: 0.249, freq: 9879]
  • system [score: 0.244, freq: 8829]
  • policy [score: 0.243, freq: 8979]
  • character [score: 0.241, freq: 9073]
  • liberty [score: 0.24, freq: 6364]
  • office [score: 0.238, freq: 6060]
  • position [score: 0.237, freq: 8223]
  • empire [score: 0.237, freq: 21781]
  • constitution [score: 0.237, freq: 5269]

Translations

Russian автономия (0.045)
авторитет (0.065)
власть (0.606)
орган (0.079)
полномочие (0.093)
право (0.021)
Czech autorita (0.018)
moc (0.011)
orgán (0.81)
pravomoc (0.013)
úřad (0.101)