Authorities Explain What Caused The Licking County Crash

An authority is someone with official responsibility for a particular area of activity: [ C ] government / church authorities The authorities are the police or other government officials: Define authorities. authorities synonyms, authorities pronunciation, authorities translation, English dictionary definition of authorities. n. pl. au·thor·i·ties 1. a. The power to enforce laws, exact. authorities Definitions of authorities noun the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed. This provided a pretext for the authorities to cancel the elections. The prison authorities. 3 authorities [plural] : people who have power to make decisions and enforce rules and laws