| authority | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so | the power or right to give orders or make decisions.; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" |
| ~ power of appointment | authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property. |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ carte blanche | complete freedom or authority to act. |
| ~ command | the power or authority to command.; "an admiral in command" |
| ~ imperium | supreme authority; absolute dominion. |
| ~ lordship | the authority of a lord. |
| ~ muscle | authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way).; "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign" |
| ~ sovereignty | the authority of a state to govern another state. |
| n. (person) | 2. authority | (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others.; "the authorities have issued a curfew" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| ~ abrogator | an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal. |
| ~ allocator, distributor | a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion. |
| ~ approver | an authority with power to approve. |
| ~ authority figure | someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else. |
| ~ authoriser, authorizer | an authority who authorizes (people or actions).; "the agents report back to their authorizers" |
| ~ mandator | an authority who issues a mandate. |
| ~ pacha, pasha | a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt. |
| ~ civil authority, civil officer | a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs. |
| ~ rebuker, reproacher, reprover, upbraider | someone who finds fault or imputes blame. |
| ~ withdrawer | an authority who withdraws permission. |
| n. (person) | 3. authority | an expert whose views are taken as definitive.; "he is an authority on corporate law" |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| ~ adviser, advisor, consultant | an expert who gives advice.; "an adviser helped students select their courses"; "the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala" |
| ~ cognoscente, connoisseur | an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts. |
| ~ evaluator, judge | an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality. |
| ~ high priest | a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine.; "he's the high priest of contemporary jazz" |
| ~ liturgist | an authority on liturgies. |
| ~ professional, master | an authority qualified to teach apprentices. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. assurance, authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness | freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities.; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" |
| ~ certainty | the state of being certain.; "his certainty reassured the others" |
| n. (group) | 5. agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office | an administrative unit of government.; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" |
| ~ afrl, air force research laboratory | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces. |
| ~ ahpcrc, army high performance computing research center | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications; a partnership of government and university and industry. |
| ~ naval research laboratory, nrl | the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines. |
| ~ u.s. army criminal investigation laboratory, united states army criminal investigation laboratory, us army criminal investigation laboratory, usacil | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence. |
| ~ administrative body, administrative unit | a unit with administrative responsibilities. |
| ~ executive agency | an agency of the executive branch of government. |
| ~ fda, food and drug administration | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products. |
| ~ cdc, center for disease control and prevention | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases). |
| ~ counterterrorist center, ctc | an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage. |
| ~ nonproliferation center, npc | an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems. |
| ~ bureau of the census, census bureau | the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States. |
| ~ national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather. |
| ~ national climatic data center, ncdc | the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data. |
| ~ national weather service | the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps. |
| ~ technology administration | an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth. |
| ~ national institute of standards and technology, nist | an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs. |
| ~ national technical information service, ntis | an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information. |
| ~ darpa, defense advanced research projects agency | the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11. |
| ~ department of defense laboratory system, lablink | a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness. |
| ~ department of energy intelligence, doei | an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community. |
| ~ phs, united states public health service | an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health. |
| ~ national institutes of health, nih | an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government. |
| ~ bja, bureau of justice assistance | the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse. |
| ~ bjs, bureau of justice statistics | the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers. |
| ~ immigration and naturalization service, ins | an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States. |
| ~ united states border patrol, us border patrol | the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States. |
| ~ bureau of diplomatic security, ds | the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas. |
| ~ foreign service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world. |
| ~ bureau of intelligence and research, inr | an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community. |
| ~ fws, united states fish and wildlife service, us fish and wildlife service | an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution. |
| ~ national park service | an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks. |
| ~ financial management service | the federal agency in the Treasury Department that manages the government's disbursement and collection systems and provides central accounting and financial reporting. |
| ~ office of intelligence support, ois | agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy. |
| ~ comptroller of the currency | the agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency. |
| ~ bureau of customs, customs bureau, customs service, uscb | the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs. |
| ~ bureau of engraving and printing | the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency. |
| ~ internal revenue service, irs | the bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections. |
| ~ faa, federal aviation agency | an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation. |
| ~ transportation security administration, tsa | an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel. |
| ~ gao, government accounting office, united states government accounting office | an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States. |
| ~ united states navy, us navy, usn, navy | the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces. |
| ~ u. s. coast guard, united states coast guard, us coast guard | an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce. |
| ~ naval air warfare center weapons division, nawcwpns | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems. |
| ~ naval special warfare, nsw | the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare. |
| ~ naval surface warfare center, nswc | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare. |
| ~ naval underwater warfare center, nuwc | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems. |
| ~ office of naval intelligence, oni | the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy. |
| ~ marine corps intelligence activity, mcia | an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization. |
| ~ u. s. air force, united states air force, us air force, usaf, air force | the airforce of the United States of America; the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space. |
| ~ afisr, air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, air force isr | an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority; operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms. |
| ~ independent agency | an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments. |
| ~ advanced research and development activity, arda | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology. |
| ~ defense logistics agency | a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions. |
| ~ defense reutilization and marketing service, drms | the organization in the Defense Logistics Agency that inventories and evaluates and sells reusable United States government surplus. |
| ~ defense technical information center, dtic | the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors. |
| ~ law enforcement agency | an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws. |
| ~ occupational safety and health administration, osha | a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. |
| ~ organ | a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function.; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department" |
| ~ patent and trademark office database, patent office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones. |
| ~ government printing office, gpo, united states government printing office, us government printing office | an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government. |
| ~ national guard bureau, ngb | the agency that administers the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard; provides liaison between the Army and the Air Force and various National Guard units. |
| ~ u. s. army, united states army, us army, usa, army | the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare. |
| ~ ai, army intelligence | an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders. |
| ~ ballistic missile defense organization, bmdo | an agency in the Department of Defense that is responsible for making ballistic missile defense a reality. |
| ~ defense information systems agency, disa | a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
| ~ national geospatial-intelligence agency, nga | a combat support agency that provides geographic intelligence in support of national security. |
| ~ casualty care research center, ccrc | an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care. |
| ~ federal housing administration, fha | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages. |
| ~ local authority | an administrative unit of local government. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. authorisation, authority, authorization, sanction | official permission or approval.; "authority for the program was renewed several times" |
| ~ permission | approval to do something.; "he asked permission to leave" |
| n. (communication) | 7. authority | an authoritative written work.; "this book is the final authority on the life of Milton" |
| ~ book | a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together).; "I am reading a good book on economics" |
| ~ last word | an authoritative statement.; "my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take" |
| might | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. might, mightiness, power | physical strength. |
| ~ strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong.; "fatigue sapped his strength" |
| potency | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| n. (state) | 2. potency, potential, potentiality | the inherent capacity for coming into being. |
| ~ possibleness, possibility | capability of existing or happening or being true.; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired" |
| ~ latency | the state of being not yet evident or active. |
| ~ prospect, chance | the possibility of future success.; "his prospects as a writer are excellent" |
| n. (state) | 3. potence, potency | the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse. |
| ~ physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state | the condition or state of the body or bodily functions. |
| power | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent). |
| ~ valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate. |
| ~ preponderance | superiority in power or influence.; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power" |
| ~ puissance | power to influence or coerce.; "the puissance of the labor vote" |
| ~ persuasiveness, strength | the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty.; "the strength of his argument settled the matter" |
| ~ irresistibility, irresistibleness | the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist. |
| ~ interestingness, interest | the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.).; "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" |
| ~ chokehold, stranglehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation.; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" |
| ~ sway | controlling influence. |
| ~ influence | a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.; "used her parents' influence to get the job" |
| ~ repellant, repellent | the power to repel.; "she knew many repellents to his advances" |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ jurisdiction, legal power | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law.; "courts having jurisdiction in this district" |
| ~ disposal | the power to use something or someone.; "used all the resources at his disposal" |
| ~ free will, discretion | the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies. |
| ~ veto | the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature). |
| ~ effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness | power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. power | (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second). |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| ~ electric power, electrical power, wattage | the product of voltage and current. |
| ~ waterpower | the power to do work that is latent in a head of water. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done.; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" |
| ~ cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ know-how | the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something. |
| ~ leadership | the ability to lead.; "he believed that leadership can be taught" |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| ~ aptitude | inherent ability. |
| ~ bilingualism | the ability to speak two languages colloquially. |
| ~ mental ability, capacity | the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior. |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ originality | the ability to think and act independently. |
| ~ science, skill | ability to produce solutions in some problem domain.; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" |
| ~ acquirement, skill, accomplishment, attainment, acquisition | an ability that has been acquired by training. |
| ~ hand | ability.; "he wanted to try his hand at singing" |
| ~ superior skill | more than ordinary ability. |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| n. (state) | 4. office, power | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power.; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ governing, government activity, governance, government, administration | the act of governing; exercising authority.; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" |
| ~ executive clemency | the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction. |
| ~ war power | an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime. |
| n. (person) | 5. force, power | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" |
| ~ causal agency, causal agent, cause | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. |
| ~ juggernaut, steamroller | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way. |
| ~ influence | one having power to influence another.; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children" |
| ~ moloch | a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life" |
| n. (communication) | 6. exponent, index, power | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. |
| ~ degree | the highest power of a term or variable. |
| ~ mathematical notation | a notation used by mathematicians. |
| ~ logarithm, log | the exponent required to produce a given number. |
| n. (group) | 7. great power, major power, power, superpower, world power | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world. |
| ~ body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land | a politically organized body of people under a single government.; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" |
| ~ hegemon | a leading or paramount power. |
| n. (person) | 8. baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman.; "an oil baron" |
| ~ businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ oil tycoon | a powerful person in the oil business. |
| v. (consumption) | 9. power | supply the force or power for the functioning of.; "The gasoline powers the engines" |
| ~ drive | cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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