Word

authorities, n.
freq. cnt. 10

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 112 freq. cnt.: 100 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 2

authorities government regime

sample sentences

"the government reduced taxes"
"the matter was referred to higher authorities"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

govern

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

government, governing, governance, government activity, administration

hypernym

polity

hyponym

authoritarian state, authoritarian regime bureaucracy ancien regime court, royal court Downing Street empire federal government government-in-exile local government military government, stratocracy palace papacy, pontificate puppet government, puppet state, pupet regime state state government totalitarian state, totalitation regime

member meronym

government department legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers executive judiciary, bench division government officials, officialdom

part meronym

organization, administration, establishment, brass, governance, governing body, organisation judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system