(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.

The authoring of a project by a team of people working in collaboration, often with a project manager to coordinate effort

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

plural of authoring program

plural of certificate authority

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

(publishing, derogatory) A publisher that relies on producing large numbers of small-run books by different authors, as opposed to a smaller number of works published in larger numbers.