noun
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the power or right to give commands, enforce obedience, take action or make final decisions; jurisdiction; authority.
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(gram.) the sense of the locative case (the seventh case) suggesting the location of action.
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a main division of book, which, usu. deals with a subject or episode exclusively; a chapter.
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supreme power or authority; supremacy.
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a person or a body having supreme authority.
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a generally accepted and established system of political administration of a state, country; government.
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a department or a division of a government in charge of a particular affair, esp. dispensation of justice.