Glossary definition(s) for: authority
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n., The right or permission to act legally on another's behalf; esp., the power of one person to affect another's legal relations by acts done in accordance with the other's manifestations of assent; the power delegated by a principal to an agent.
[ Government - Black's Law Dictionary ]
Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
Dictionary definition(s) for: authority
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n., The right or permission to act legally on another's behalf; esp., the power of one person to affect another's legal relations by acts done in accordance with the other's manifestations of assent; the power delegated by a principal to an agent.
[ Government - Black's Law Dictionary ]
Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
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n., Ability to persuade others by argument or example to accept one's decisions.
[ Sciences - Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology ]
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000.
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n., The knowledge and experience that qualifies a person to write or speak as an expert on a given subject. In the academic community, authority is indicated by credentials, previously published works on the subject, institutional affiliation, awards, imprint, reviews, patterns of citation, etc.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS) ]
Reitz, Joan M.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science . Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
http://lu.com/odlis/.
