Synonyms of the word

authority

• n. ability to decide, control.
• n. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
• n. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
• n. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
• n. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

agency

• n. The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.
• n. A person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved: instrumentality, means.
• n. The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.
• n. An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of…
• n. A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the…

assurance

• n. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give…
• n. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
• n. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
• n. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity.
• n. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
• n. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Recently,…
• n. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. In England,…

authorisation

• n. Alternative spelling of authorization.

authorization

• n. (uncountable) Permission.
• n. (countable) An act of authorizing.
• n. (countable) (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
• n. (government) Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.

book

• n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material,…
• n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published…
• n. A major division of a long work.
• n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
• n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
• n. (theater) The script of a musical.
• n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
• n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
• n. (law) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class…
• n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
• n. (poker slang) four of a kind.
• n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
• n. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
• v. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
• v. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence…
• v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
• v. To record bets as bookmaker.
• v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake.

bureau

• n. An administrative unit of government; office.
• n. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
• n. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
• n. (chiefly Britain) A desk usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the…
• n. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes.

certainty

• n. The state of being certain.
• n. An instance of being certain.
• n. A fact or truth unquestionably established.

confidence

• n. Passive self-assurance.
• n. Expression or feeling of certainty.
• n. The quality of trusting.
• n. Information held in secret.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

dominance

• n. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
• n. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
• n. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs;…
• n. (biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.

expert

• adj. Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
• adj. Characteristic of an expert.
• n. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
• n. (chess) A player ranking just below master.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

office

• n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
• n. A position of responsibility.
• n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
• n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
• n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
• n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
• n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
• n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
• v. To provide (someone) with an office.
• v. (intransitive) To have an office.

permission

• n. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).
• n. The act of permitting.
• n. (computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

potency

• n. Strength.
• n. Power.
• n. The ability or capacity to perform something.

sanction

• n. An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
• n. A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted…
• n. A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying either of the above.
• v. (transitive) To ratify; to make valid.
• v. (transitive) To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
• v. (transitive) To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.

say-so

• n. Statement that something is so.
• n. (informal) Permission.
• n. Say, voice (in a matter).

self-assurance

• n. The state or quality of being confident in oneself.

self-confidence

• n. The state of being self-confident.
• n. A measure of one's belief in one's own abilities.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

sureness

• n. (uncountable) The property of being sure, certainty.
• n. (uncountable) The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
• n. (countable, rare) The result or product of being sure.