authorities

Noun

Meaning

of Authority

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

government police administration regime officials governments experts specialists Local authorities aga big brother sorter power state system
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Antonyms

people masses disqualification weakness hoi polloi canaille
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Hypernyms

polity

Hyponyms

empire palace state court bureaucracy pontificate

Phrases with the word

Local authorities the authorities Chinese authorities defied the authorities federal authorities municipal authorities

Examples

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Bertrand Russell

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves. John Prescott

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. Jorge Luis Borges

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy? Robert Todd Carroll

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. Dorothy Day

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. Nikolai Gogol

Close letter words and terms

authoritativeness authoritativity authoritie authority authority bias authority chain