authority

authority
n
1) власть
- act with the authority of the law
- exercise authority
- personify authority
- set up authority
2) полномочие
- act on smb.'s authority
- be vested with the necessary authority
- give authority
- have authority
- receive authority
3) орган, управление
4) обыкн. pl власти; администрация
- apply to the authorities
5) авторитет, вес, влияние
- acknowledge authority
- consolidate authority
- challenge the authority of the experts
- have authority with smb.
- enhance resolutely the authority of the UN
- interpose authority
- invoke smb.'s authority
- quote smb.'s authority
- renounce authority
- override authority
6) авторитетный источник
- know smth. on good authority
- exercise supreme authority
- recognize the supreme authority
- assume supreme authority over the country

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