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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extriction, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subjection, subordination, suppression |
| Main Entry: | immunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privilege, exemption |
| Synonyms: | amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, invulnerability, liberty, license, prerogative, protection, release, resistance, right |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
| Antonyms: | defenselessness, responsibility, susceptibility, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, connections, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, in, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, ropes, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight* |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, powerlessness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jurisdiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of authority |
| Synonyms: | administration, arbitration, area, authority, bailiwick, bounds, circuit, command, commission, compass, confines, control, discretion, district, domination, dominion, empire, extent, field, hegemony, influence, inquisition, judicature, limits, magistracy, might, orbit, power, prerogative, province, purview, range, reach, reign, right, rule, say, scope, slot, sovereignty, sphere, stomping grounds, supervision, sway, territory, turf*, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | autarchy, authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, power of choice, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty, suffrage, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | option |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alternative |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, choice, claim, dibs, dilemma, discretion, druthers, election, flipside, franchise, free will, grant, license, opportunity, other side of coin, pickup, preference, prerogative, privilege, right, selection, take it or leave it |
| Main Entry: | place |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duty, role |
| Synonyms: | affair, charge, concern, function, prerogative, responsibility, right |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control, dominance |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, authorization, birthright, clout, command, connection, diadem, direction, domination, dominion, hegemony, imperium, influence, inside track, jurisdiction, law, leadership, license, management, might, moxie*, omnipotence, paramountcy, predominance, prerogative, prestige, privilege, regency, right, rule, say-so, sovereignty, steam, strength, strings, superiority, supremacy, sway, warrant, weight*, wire |
| Antonyms: | inefficiency, subservience, surrender, weakness, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | priority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first concern |
| Synonyms: | antecedence, arrangement, crash project, greatest importance, lead, order, precedence, preeminence, preference, prerogative, previousness, rank, right of way, seniority, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | unimportance |
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