authority : Idioms & Phrases


authority figure

  • noun someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else
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civil authority

  • noun a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs
    civil officer.
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Constituted authorities

  • the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc.
Webster 1913

good authority

  • noun testimony by someone who should know
    • I have it on good authority
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local authority

  • noun an administrative unit of local government
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palestine authority

  • noun combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
    Palestine National Authority; Palestine Authority.
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palestine national authority

  • noun combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
    Palestine National Authority; Palestine Authority.
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palestinian national authority

  • noun combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO
    Palestine National Authority; Palestine Authority.
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redevelopment authority

  • noun a public administrative unit given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areas
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regulatory authority

  • noun a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest
    regulatory agency.
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supreme authority

  • noun someone with the power to settle matters at will
    arbiter.
    • she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion
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