Related Words for authority figure

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officer
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Noun, Noun
official
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Noun
representative
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Noun
ruler
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Noun
author
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Noun
authorize
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Verb
leader
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Noun
senior
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Name
figurehead
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Noun
officiate
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Verb
royalty
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Noun
father figure
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Phrase, Noun
archon
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Noun
personage
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Noun
tsar
/
Noun
superintendent
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Noun
submitter
x/x
Noun
dictator
x/x
Noun
agent
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Noun
bureaucrat
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Noun
the man
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Phrase, Noun
figure
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Noun
dignitary
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Noun
czar
/
Noun
arbitrator
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Noun
commissioner
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Noun
executive
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Noun
potentate
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Noun
public figure
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
persona
x/x
Noun
president
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Noun
judge
/
Noun
chair
/
Noun
master
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Noun
actor
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Noun
big cheese
//
Name, Name
functionary
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Noun
somebody
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Noun
someone
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Noun
power broker
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
chairman
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Noun
public servant
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
legislator
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Noun
number one
/x/
Phrase, Adjective, Noun
captain
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Noun
overlord
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Noun
influential
xx/x
Adjective
politician
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Noun
appointee
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Noun
police
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Noun
boss
/
Noun
rapporteur
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Noun
supervisor
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Noun
identifier
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Noun
autocrat
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Noun
assignee
x//
Noun
proxy
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Noun
chairperson
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Noun
father
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Noun
delegate
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Noun
lawmaker
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Noun
head honcho
//x
Phrase, Noun
speaker
/x
Noun
warden
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Noun
decide
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Verb
political
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Adjective
fiscal
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Adjective
occupant
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Noun
reporter
x/x
Noun
ancestor
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Noun
vice
/
Noun
protector
x/x
Noun
commander
x/x
Noun
adjudicator
x/xxx
Noun
monitor
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Noun
somewhat
//
Adverb
spokesperson
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Noun
role model
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Phrase, Noun
minister
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Noun
arbiter
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Noun
referee
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Noun
senator
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Noun
hero
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Noun
chancellor
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Noun
guide
/
Noun
informer
x/x
Noun
chief
/
Noun
king
/
Noun
attorney
x/x
Noun
spokesman
/x
Noun
lawgiver
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Noun
repository
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Noun
examiner
x/xx
Noun
committee
x/x
Noun
upper
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Noun
chief of state
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Phrase, Noun
focal
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Adjective
puppet master
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
envoy
/x
Noun
heir
/
Noun
rabbi
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Noun
titular
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Adjective
friends in high places
/x//x
Phrase, Noun
regulator
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Noun
sire
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Noun
aspirant
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Noun
auditor
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Noun
questioner
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Noun
administrator
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Noun
enforcer
x/x
Noun
institution
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Noun
magistrate
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Noun
mace
/
Noun
vicar
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Noun
guardian
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Noun
champion
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Noun
abilities
x/xx
Noun
able
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
accordance
x/x
Noun
accountable
x/xx
Adjective
act
/
Noun, Verb, Adverb
add
/
Verb, Noun
address
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Noun, Verb
administration
xxx/x
Noun
administrative
x/xxx
Adjective
adviser
x/x
Noun
aegis
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Noun
agencies
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Noun
allegorical
xx/xx
Adjective
allow
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Verb
allowable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
ambit
xx
Noun
amount
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Noun, Verb
anarchy
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Noun
anatomy
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Noun
annex
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Noun, Verb
apa
xx
Name
app
/
Noun
appear
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Verb
approval
x/x
Noun
approximate
x/xx
Adjective, Verb
are
/
Noun
artwork
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Noun
assurance
x/x
Noun
attic
/x
Noun, Adjective
auspices
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Noun
authorisation
xxx/x
Noun
authorise
xxx
Verb
authorised
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Adjective
authoritarianism
xxx/xxxx
Noun
authoritative
x/xxx
Adjective
authorities
x/xx
Noun
authorization
xxx/x
Noun
autonomy
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Noun
average
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
base
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
baseline
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Noun, Verb
basis
/x
Noun
bear claw
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Phrase, Noun
beginning
x/x
Noun, Adjective
behalf
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Noun
believe
x/
Verb
benchmark
/x
Noun, Verb
benefit of clergy
/xx//x
Phrase, Noun
board
/
Noun, Verb
bod
/
Noun
bodies
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Noun
bom
/
Noun
bond
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bounded
/x
Adjective
box
/
Noun, Verb
branch
/
Noun, Verb
breakdown
/x
Noun
budget
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
build
/
Verb, Noun
bulk
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
bureau
/x
Noun
calculate
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Verb
calculation
xx/x
Noun
can
/
Verb, Noun
capable
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Adjective
capacity
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
capitalize
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Verb
carte blanche
//
Phrase, Noun, Adverb
central bank
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Phrase, Noun
central intelligence agency
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Phrase, Noun
chapter
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Noun, Verb
character
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Noun, Verb
charge
/
Noun, Verb
charity
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Noun
chart
/
Noun, Verb
chassis
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Noun
cia
x
Name, Adjective
cipher
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Noun, Verb
clearance
/x
Noun
cleric
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Noun, Adjective
clout
/
Noun, Verb
clown
/
Noun, Verb
cognizance
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Noun
college
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Noun
command
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Noun, Verb
commission
x/x
Noun, Verb
competence
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Noun
competencies
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Noun
competent
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Adjective
competition
xx/x
Noun
comprise
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Verb
comptroller of the currency
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Phrase, Noun
compute
x/
Verb, Noun
conference
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Noun, Verb
confidence
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Noun
connoisseur
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Noun
consent
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Noun, Verb
consultant
x/x
Noun
contain
x/
Verb
contracting
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Noun, Adjective
control
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Noun, Verb
cop
/
Noun, Verb
corporation
xx/x
Noun
council
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Noun
count
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
count on
//
Phrase, Verb
court
/
Noun, Verb
credentials
x/x
Noun
credibility
xx/xx
Noun
cubist
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Noun, Adjective
curve
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
cypher
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Noun, Verb
dad
/
Noun, Verb
damascene
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
data
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Noun
dato
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Name
decal
xx
Noun, Verb
decentralization
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Noun
deduct
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Verb
definite
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Adjective, Noun
delivery
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Noun
denomination
xxx/x
Noun
department
x/x
Noun
design
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Noun, Verb
device
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Noun
diagram
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Noun, Verb
differentiate
xx/xx
Verb, Noun
digit
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Noun, Verb
digital
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Adjective, Name
direction
x/x
Noun
director
x/x
Noun
directorate
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Noun
discretion
x/x
Noun
dispensation
xx/x
Noun
divide
x/
Verb, Noun
dominance
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Noun
dominion
x/x
Noun
draw
/
Verb, Noun
dummy
/x
Noun, Verb, Adverb
easel
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Noun
eight
/
Noun, Adjective
emblem
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Noun, Verb
empower
x/x
Verb