Usually means: Authority to influence or decide.
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  1. say-so: Merriam-Webster
  2. say-so: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. say-so: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. say-so, say-so: Collins English Dictionary
  5. say-so: Vocabulary.com
  6. say-so: Wordnik
  7. say-so: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. say-so: Wiktionary
  9. say-so: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. say-so: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. say-so: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. say-so: Dictionary.com
  13. say-so: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. say-so: Rhymezone
  15. say-so: FreeDictionary.org
  16. say-so: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. say-so: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. say-so: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. say-so: Encyclopedia

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noun:  (informal) Authority, as backing some statement, injunction, or command.

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