POWER OF ATTORNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power of attorney mean? 

• POWER OF ATTORNEY (noun)
  The noun POWER OF ATTORNEY has 1 sense:

1. a legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor's agent

  Familiarity information: POWER OF ATTORNEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER OF ATTORNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor's agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("power of attorney" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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

stock power (a power of attorney document to transfer ownership of a registered security from the owner to another party)

proxy (a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting)

 Context examples 

Also called durable power of attorney.

(DPA, NCI Dictionary)

“And I have a power of attorney from him in my pocket, to act for him in all matters.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A durable power of attorney for health care is a document that names your health care proxy.

(Advance Directives, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A durable power of attorney remains in effect until the person who grants it dies or cancels it.

(Durable power of attorney, NCI Dictionary)

A type of power of attorney.

(DPA, NCI Dictionary)

A power of attorney is a legal document that gives one person (such as a relative, lawyer, or friend) the authority to make legal, medical, or financial decisions for another person.

(DPA, NCI Dictionary)