amerikai:
brit:
1. The power to enforce rules or give orders.
I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.
2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
the world's foremost authority on orangutans
4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.