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General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. authority: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. authority: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. authority: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. authority: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. AUTHORITY, Authority, authority: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. authority: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Authority: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. authority: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. authority: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. authority: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. authority: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. authority: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. authority: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. authority: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. authority: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. Authority (His Dark Materials), Authority (New York), Authority (Wildstorm), Authority (comic book), Authority (comics), Authority (disambiguation), Authority (management), Authority (textual criticism), Authority, The Authority (His Dark Materials), The Authority: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. Authority: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. authority: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. authority: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. authority: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. authority: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. AUTHORITY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
  23. authority: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. authority: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. authority: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. authority: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. authority: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. authority: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authority: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. authority: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  2. authority: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
  3. authority: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Authority: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  5. Authority: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
  6. AUTHORITY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  7. authority: Nelson Political Science Glossary [home, info]
  8. authority: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  9. Authority: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  10. Authority: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]
  11. authority: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Authority: Cybernetics and Systems [home, info]
  2. authority: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authority: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. authority: Sociology [home, info]
  2. authority: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
  3. authority: Idioms [home, info]
  4. authority: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTHORITY: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authority: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Authority: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. authority: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (authority)

▸ noun:  official permission or approval ("Authority for the program was renewed several times")
▸ noun:  the power or right to give orders or make decisions ("He has the authority to issue warrants")
▸ noun:  an authoritative written work ("This book is the final authority on the life of Milton")
▸ noun:  an expert whose views are taken as definitive ("He is an authority on corporate law")
▸ noun:  (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
▸ noun:  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities ("She spoke with authority")
▸ noun:  an administrative unit of government ("Tennessee Valley Authority")
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Phrases that include authority:   authority figure, civil authority, palestinian national authority, apparent authority, had on good authority, more...

Words similar to authority:   agency, assurance, authorities, authorization, bureau, confidence, dominance, office, sanction, say-so, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness, government agency, power, say, sayso, teeth, more...


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