A public authority which operates a port or other transportation infrastructure.

(business) The authority of an employee acting unilaterally to commit an employer to a contract. / (business) The maximum value of such contract.

(euphemistic) Disobedience, a disinclination to obey.

plural of public authority

Any authority which has a legal mandate to govern, administrate a part or aspect of public life, such as all branches of the executive power of a state, province, municipality etc.

The whole of such public authorities, the governmental administration in the widest sense

(uncountable) The act of securing authorization rights independently from the intermediaries that utilize them and the parties to which they apply

plural of certificate authority

(rhetoric) Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of de-authorize