| official | | |
| n. (person) | 1. functionary, official | a worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
| ~ apparatchik | a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization).; "Democratic apparatchiks" |
| ~ appointee | an official who is appointed. |
| ~ bailiff | an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.. |
| ~ beadle | a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function. |
| ~ administrative official, bureaucrat | an official of a bureaucracy. |
| ~ caretaker | an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily.; "he acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected" |
| ~ censor | a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable. |
| ~ census taker, enumerator | someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes. |
| ~ church officer | a church official. |
| ~ city father | an important municipal official. |
| ~ civil servant | a public official who is a member of the civil service. |
| ~ commissar, political commissar | an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit. |
| ~ comptroller general | a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government. |
| ~ comptroller of the currency | a United States federal official who regulates the national banks. |
| ~ diplomat, diplomatist | an official engaged in international negotiations. |
| ~ elected official | official who won the office in a free election. |
| ~ equerry | an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles. |
| ~ fire marshall | an official who is responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires. |
| ~ fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger | an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest. |
| ~ hearing examiner, hearing officer | an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers. |
| ~ holdover, hangover | an official who remains in office after his term. |
| ~ incumbent, officeholder | the official who holds an office. |
| ~ inquisitor | an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition. |
| ~ invalidator, voider, nullifier | an official who can invalidate or nullify.; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was" |
| ~ judge, jurist, justice | a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. |
| ~ licenser | an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications). |
| ~ macebearer, macer, mace | an official who carries a mace of office. |
| ~ mandarin | any high government official or bureaucrat. |
| ~ notary, notary public | someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions. |
| ~ noticer | someone who gives formal notice. |
| ~ officeholder, officer | someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust.; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" |
| ~ federal agent, agent | any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau. |
| ~ provincial | (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order.; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" |
| ~ postmaster general | the official in charge of the national postal service. |
| ~ proconsul | an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power. |
| ~ prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, prosecutor, public prosecutor | a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state. |
| ~ quaestor | any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration). |
| ~ recruiter | an official who enlists personnel for military service. |
| ~ record-keeper, recorder, registrar | someone responsible for keeping records. |
| ~ regulator | an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest. |
| ~ returning officer | the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results. |
| ~ sealer | an official who affixes a seal to a document. |
| ~ searcher | a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items. |
| ~ skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker | a worker who has acquired special skills. |
| ~ vote counter, teller | an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly). |
| ~ town clerk | the official who keeps a town's records. |
| ~ doorkeeper, usher | an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber. |
| ~ vizier | a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire). |
| ~ weigher | an official who weighs and records the weight. |
| n. (person) | 2. official | someone who administers the rules of a game or sport.; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling" |
| ~ adjudicator | a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes. |
| ~ football official | an official who enforces the rules at a football game. |
| ~ linesman | official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside). |
| ~ ref, referee | (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play. |
| ~ scorekeeper, scorer | an official who records the score during the progress of a game. |
| ~ dispatcher, starter | the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition. |
| ~ timekeeper, timer | (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed. |
| ~ ump, umpire | an official at a baseball game. |
| adj. | 3. official | having official authority or sanction.; "official permission"; "an official representative" |
| ~ authorised, authorized | endowed with authority. |
| ~ authorised, authorized, authoritative | sanctioned by established authority.; "an authoritative communique"; "the authorized biography" |
| ~ ex officio | by virtue of an office or position.; "the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board" |
| ~ formal | characteristic of or befitting a person in authority.; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" |
| ~ formalised, formalized | given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures. |
| ~ semiofficial | having some official authority or sanction. |
| adj. (pertain) | 4. official | of or relating to an office.; "official privileges" |
| adj. | 5. official | verified officially.; "the election returns are now official" |
| ~ confirmed | having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation.; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic" |
| adj. | 6. official, prescribed | conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline.; "in prescribed order" |
| ~ regular | in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle.; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties" |
| adj. | 7. official | (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution. |
| ~ church service, church | a service conducted in a house of worship.; "don't be late for church" |
| ~ constituted, established | brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established.; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church" |
| might | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. might, mightiness, power | physical strength. |
| ~ strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong.; "fatigue sapped his strength" |
| potency | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so | the power or right to give orders or make decisions.; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" |
| ~ power of appointment | authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property. |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ carte blanche | complete freedom or authority to act. |
| ~ command | the power or authority to command.; "an admiral in command" |
| ~ imperium | supreme authority; absolute dominion. |
| ~ lordship | the authority of a lord. |
| ~ muscle | authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way).; "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign" |
| ~ sovereignty | the authority of a state to govern another state. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| n. (state) | 3. potency, potential, potentiality | the inherent capacity for coming into being. |
| ~ possibleness, possibility | capability of existing or happening or being true.; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired" |
| ~ latency | the state of being not yet evident or active. |
| ~ prospect, chance | the possibility of future success.; "his prospects as a writer are excellent" |
| n. (state) | 4. potence, potency | the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse. |
| ~ physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state | the condition or state of the body or bodily functions. |
| power | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence.; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ effectiveness, potency, strength | capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects.; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" |
| ~ valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent). |
| ~ valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate. |
| ~ preponderance | superiority in power or influence.; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power" |
| ~ puissance | power to influence or coerce.; "the puissance of the labor vote" |
| ~ persuasiveness, strength | the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty.; "the strength of his argument settled the matter" |
| ~ irresistibility, irresistibleness | the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist. |
| ~ interestingness, interest | the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.).; "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" |
| ~ chokehold, stranglehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation.; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public" |
| ~ sway | controlling influence. |
| ~ influence | a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.; "used her parents' influence to get the job" |
| ~ repellant, repellent | the power to repel.; "she knew many repellents to his advances" |
| ~ control | power to direct or determine.; "under control" |
| ~ jurisdiction, legal power | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law.; "courts having jurisdiction in this district" |
| ~ disposal | the power to use something or someone.; "used all the resources at his disposal" |
| ~ free will, discretion | the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies. |
| ~ veto | the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature). |
| ~ effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness | power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. power | (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second). |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ physical phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy. |
| ~ electric power, electrical power, wattage | the product of voltage and current. |
| ~ waterpower | the power to do work that is latent in a head of water. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done.; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" |
| ~ cognition, knowledge, noesis | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. |
| ~ know-how | the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something. |
| ~ leadership | the ability to lead.; "he believed that leadership can be taught" |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| ~ aptitude | inherent ability. |
| ~ bilingualism | the ability to speak two languages colloquially. |
| ~ mental ability, capacity | the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior. |
| ~ creative thinking, creativeness, creativity | the ability to create. |
| ~ originality | the ability to think and act independently. |
| ~ science, skill | ability to produce solutions in some problem domain.; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" |
| ~ acquirement, skill, accomplishment, attainment, acquisition | an ability that has been acquired by training. |
| ~ hand | ability.; "he wanted to try his hand at singing" |
| ~ superior skill | more than ordinary ability. |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| n. (state) | 4. office, power | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power.; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ governing, government activity, governance, government, administration | the act of governing; exercising authority.; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" |
| ~ executive clemency | the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction. |
| ~ war power | an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime. |
| n. (person) | 5. force, power | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority.; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" |
| ~ causal agency, causal agent, cause | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. |
| ~ juggernaut, steamroller | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way. |
| ~ influence | one having power to influence another.; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children" |
| ~ moloch | a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life" |
| n. (communication) | 6. exponent, index, power | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. |
| ~ degree | the highest power of a term or variable. |
| ~ mathematical notation | a notation used by mathematicians. |
| ~ logarithm, log | the exponent required to produce a given number. |
| n. (group) | 7. great power, major power, power, superpower, world power | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world. |
| ~ body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land | a politically organized body of people under a single government.; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" |
| ~ hegemon | a leading or paramount power. |
| n. (person) | 8. baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman.; "an oil baron" |
| ~ businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ oil tycoon | a powerful person in the oil business. |
| v. (consumption) | 9. power | supply the force or power for the functioning of.; "The gasoline powers the engines" |
| ~ drive | cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling.; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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