AUTHORITIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authorities mean? 

• AUTHORITIES (noun)
  The noun AUTHORITIES has 1 sense:

1. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

  Familiarity information: AUTHORITIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHORITIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

authorities; government; regime

Context example:

the matter was referred to higher authorities

Hypernyms ("authorities" is a kind of...):

polity (a politically organized unit)

Meronyms (parts of "authorities"):

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

judicatory; judicature; judicial system; judiciary (the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government)

Meronyms (members of "authorities"):

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

division (an administrative unit in government or business)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

executive (persons who administer the law)

general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)

government department (a department of government)

Domain category:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authorities"):

authoritarian regime; authoritarian state (a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people)

bureaucracy (a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials)

ancien regime (a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution))

court; royal court (the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state)

Downing Street (the British government)

empire (a group of countries under a single authority)

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

government-in-exile (a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated)

local government (the government of a local area)

military government; stratocracy (government by the military and an army)

palace (the governing group of a kingdom)

papacy; pontificate (the government of the Roman Catholic Church)

pupet regime; puppet government; puppet state (a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed)

state (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state)

state government (the government of a state in the United States)

totalitarian state; totalitation regime (a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures)

 Context examples 

Opinion of respected authorities based on clinical experience, descriptive studies, or reports of expert committees.

(Level of Evidence V, NCI Thesaurus)

The authors propose that this method could be used by local authorities, so fishermen who catch and commercialize endangered species are sanctioned.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Rio de Janeiro State Health Surveillance Under-Secretary Alexandre Chieppe pointed out his state is not experiencing an outbreak, although the authorities remain on the watch.

(Aedes mosquitoes almost impossible to eradicate, says Brazilian researcher, Agência Brasil)

You have only to lay it before the proper authorities.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NOTE: Labels must be approved by regulatory authorities [FDA; SPL]

(Medical Product Label, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In international setting according to WHOs requirements, the content of the product information is agreed between the marketing authorization holder and the drug authorization authorities at the time the market authorization is issued.

(Pharmaceutical Product Information, NCI Thesaurus)

We can do nothing legal without a warrant, and you can serve the cause best by taking this note down to the authorities and getting one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Postmarketing (Phase 4) studies to delineate additional information about the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use that may be requested by regulatory authorities in conjunction with marketing approval.

(phase IV trial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A classification typically assigned retrospectively to a Phase III trial after regulatory authorities determined the need for a Phase III B trial.

(Phase IIIa Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

I should like to have his opinion of the case, though the authorities assure me that nothing more can be done.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)