n.
authority
1) to assume, take; exercise, wield; seize; transfer ~
2) emergency; executive; political ~
3) discretionary ~s
4) ~ over (they seized ~ over several provinces)
5) the ~ to + inf. (the prime minister has the ~ to dissolve parliament)
6) in; into ~ (the government in ~; to come into ~)
dominance
7) the balance of ~
nation
8) the great, world ~s; a super~
9) (the) warring ~s
10) a foreign; occupying ~
capability
11) to develop one's ~s (of observation)
12) bargaining; earning; healing; purchasing ~; recuperative; staying; supernatural ~s
military force, police force
13) air; military; naval, sea; police ~
14) fire ~
source of energy
15) to turn on the ~
16) to cut off, turn off the ~
17) electric; hydroelectric; nuclear; water ~
motive force
18) under one's own ~
exponent
( math. )
19) to raise to a ~ (to raise five to the third ~)