#authority  (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"
  supertype:  person__individual__someone__somebody__mortal__human__human_being__humanbeing__soul  a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
  subtype:  allocator__distributor  a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion
  subtype:  approver  an authority with power to approve
  subtype:  authority_figure__authorityfigure  someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else
  subtype:  authorizer__authoriser  an authority who authorizes (people or actions); "the agents report back to their authorizers"
  subtype:  mandator  an authority who issues a mandate
  subtype:  pasha__pacha  a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt
  subtype:  civil_authority  a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs
     subtype:  mayor__city_manager  the head of a city government
        subtype:  ex-mayor  a former mayor
        subtype:  burgomaster  a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria
        subtype:  mayoress  a woman mayor
  subtype:  upbraider__reprover__reproacher__rebuker  someone who finds fault or imputes blame
  subtype:  withdrawer.authority  an authority who withdraws permission

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