What part of speech is authorities?

Authorities can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. authorities is a noun, plural of authority.

Inflections

Noun

What does authorities mean?

Definitions

Noun

authorities - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"

Examples of authorities

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1. noun The matter was referred to higher authorities.
2. noun DPA: Iraqi authorities announced that they had busted up 3 terrorist cells operating in Baghdad.
3. noun Authorities would likely have been happy answering questions about Posada's whereabouts with an indefinite shrug.
4. noun A Sri Lanka-born Tamil with a Norwegian passport was arrested by Thai authorities in 2000 for his links with the LTTE.
5. noun Small polygamous groups have existed in the southwestern US under the watchful yet fairly benign eye of authorities ever since a sect known as the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) separated itself from mainstream Mormonism in 1890.
6. noun When the FLDS under Mr. Jeffs (and his father before him) grew to some 10,000 followers in several southwestern communities with estimated assets of $110 million; when it became clear that government officials, school authorities, and police in those communities had become intertwined with the sect; when ex-members increasingly reported child and sexual abuse charges (mainly involving underage girls forced to marry older men); and when the sect began to use secluded compounds, state and federal authorities started to crack down more vigorously.
7. noun The computer disk was confiscated from him during his arrest by the CIA in Azerbaijan and handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
8. noun Wherever he is, authorities need to focus on the traceable connection between him and those he or Atef recruited.
9. noun It was Khalid Mohammed who told authorities about Aafia Siddiqui, who has a PhD from Brandeis in neurology.
10. noun As agent Van Harp, then head of the Amerithrax investigation said, the information coming from Khalid Mohammed is classified with the authorities releasing only certain limited information.
11. noun Relief agencies are trying to help hundreds of thousands of displaced people while authorities have vowed to restore security in New Orleans following a breakdown of law and order.
12. noun I chose the later, but approached the front desk about the hotel policy to push over their responsibilities on local authorities, not to mention the good nights sleep i paid for but didnt get.
13. noun The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
14. noun The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
15. noun I have read a good many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a little plainer.
Sentence  
noun
The matter was referred to higher authorities.
DPA: Iraqi authorities announced that they had busted up 3 terrorist cells operating in Baghdad.
Authorities would likely have been happy answering questions about Posada's whereabouts with an indefinite shrug.
A Sri Lanka-born Tamil with a Norwegian passport was arrested by Thai authorities in 2000 for his links with the LTTE.
Small polygamous groups have existed in the southwestern US under the watchful yet fairly benign eye of authorities ever since a sect known as the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) separated itself from mainstream Mormonism in 1890.
When the FLDS under Mr. Jeffs (and his father before him) grew to some 10,000 followers in several southwestern communities with estimated assets of $110 million; when it became clear that government officials, school authorities, and police in those communities had become intertwined with the sect; when ex-members increasingly reported child and sexual abuse charges (mainly involving underage girls forced to marry older men); and when the sect began to use secluded compounds, state and federal authorities started to crack down more vigorously.
The computer disk was confiscated from him during his arrest by the CIA in Azerbaijan and handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
Wherever he is, authorities need to focus on the traceable connection between him and those he or Atef recruited.
It was Khalid Mohammed who told authorities about Aafia Siddiqui, who has a PhD from Brandeis in neurology.
As agent Van Harp, then head of the Amerithrax investigation said, the information coming from Khalid Mohammed is classified with the authorities releasing only certain limited information.
Relief agencies are trying to help hundreds of thousands of displaced people while authorities have vowed to restore security in New Orleans following a breakdown of law and order.
I chose the later, but approached the front desk about the hotel policy to push over their responsibilities on local authorities, not to mention the good nights sleep i paid for but didnt get.
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
I have read a good many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a little plainer.

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