vicarious authority

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• Authority — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Authority >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 authority authority Sgm: N 1 influence influence patronage power preponderance credit prestige prerogative jurisdiction Sgm: N 1 right right …   English dictionary for students

• vicarious — adjective Etymology: Latin vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, stead more at week Date: 1637 1. a. serving instead of someone or something else b. that has been delegated < vicarious authority > 2. performed or suffered by one person as a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• vicarious — adj. 1 experienced in the imagination through another person (vicarious pleasure). 2 acting or done for another (vicarious suffering). 3 deputed, delegated (vicarious authority). Derivatives: vicariously adv. vicariousness n. Etymology: L… …   Useful english dictionary

• authority — Synonyms and related words: Admirable Crichton, acme, adept, administration, adviser, affidavit, aficionado, agency, agentship, amateur, amperage, announcer, annunciator, appurtenance, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, armipotence …   Moby Thesaurus

• Vicarious — Vi*ca ri*ous, a. [L. vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Gr. ? to yield, give way, G. wechsel a change, and probably also to E. weak. See {Weak}, and cf.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Vicarious liability — This article is about vicarious liability in private litigation; for vicarious liability in criminal law, see Vicarious liability (criminal). Vicarious liability is a form of strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine… …   Wikipedia

• vicarious performance — execution of an action by investing someone else with the authority to act …   English contemporary dictionary

• vi|car´i|ous|ness — vi|car|i|ous «vy KAIR ee uhs, vih », adjective. 1. done or suffered for others: »vicarious work, vicarious punishment. 2. felt by sharing in the experience of another: »The invalid received vicarious pleasure from reading travel stories. 3.… …   Useful english dictionary

• vi|car´i|ous|ly — vi|car|i|ous «vy KAIR ee uhs, vih », adjective. 1. done or suffered for others: »vicarious work, vicarious punishment. 2. felt by sharing in the experience of another: »The invalid received vicarious pleasure from reading travel stories. 3.… …   Useful english dictionary

• vi|car|i|ous — «vy KAIR ee uhs, vih », adjective. 1. done or suffered for others: »vicarious work, vicarious punishment. 2. felt by sharing in the experience of another: »The invalid received vicarious pleasure from reading travel stories. 3. taking the place… …   Useful english dictionary

• proxy — Synonyms and related words: Australian ballot, Hare system, Indiana ballot, Massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, advocate, agency, agent, agentship, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, assignee, assignment, attorney,… …   Moby Thesaurus