authority
Meaning of authority
- The power to enforce rules or give orders.
I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
the world's foremost authority on orangutans
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
Information about authority
- It is a name.
- The plural form of authority is: authorities.
- Languages in which authority is used:
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Hyphenation of authority
au-thor-ity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- authority is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
authority synonyms
Meaning authorization:
authorization, potency, dominance, sanction
Meaning assurance:
assurance, confidence, sureness
Meaning agency:
Translation of authority
- Italian: ente, autorità, fonte
- German: Anstalt, Autorität
- Spanish: ente, autoridad
- French: institution, autorité
- Portuguese: entidade, autoridade
Words that rhyme with authority
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