1. authorities
noun. ['əˈθɔrətiːz'] the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.
Synonyms
- regime
- organisation
- judiciary
- local government
- governing body
- legislative assembly
- division
- authoritarian state
- state government
- pontificate
- ancien regime
- papacy
- polity
- royal court
- establishment
- general assembly
- legislative body
- law-makers
- organization
- puppet government
- Downing Street
- government-in-exile
- bench
- brass
- pupet regime
- empire
- totalitation regime
- executive
- officialdom
- judicatory
- judicature
- palace
- federal government
- court
- state
- totalitarian state
- government department
- puppet state
- stratocracy
- government
- judicial system
- government officials
- bureaucracy
- administration
- governance
- legislature
- military government
Antonyms
- finish
- inactivity
- Cryptogamia
- Phanerogamae
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Words that Rhyme with Authorities
- priorities
- minorities
- majority's
- sororities
Example sentences of the word authorities
1. Noun, plural
On the other hand, some tax authorities re-assess only every few years.
Quotes containing the word authorities
1. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
- Mark Twain
2. Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark