NOUN
- an authoritative declaration
- one chap's arbitrary assertion
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the power or right to give orders or make decisions
he has the authority to issue warrants
a place of potency in the state
deputies are given authorization to make arrests
How To Use say-so In A Sentence
- You can't leave the hospital without the say-so of the doctor.
- I don't think people in other departments want to give up the final say-so when it comes to files that they created or may want to refer to sometime in the future.
- But how a man like that can get on my unit, without my say-so...? A MEANS TO EVIL
- Neither can we transfer money from our accounts to the Philippines without the say-so of the bank.
- His intention was to get you lot to try, convict and hang me just on his say-so.
- Abuse is easy because no proof is needed – an alleged blasphemer can be locked up, and even executed, on the say-so of witnesses. A divided Pakistan buries Salmaan Taseer and a liberal dream
- I don't expect them to bounce a doctor on his ear just on my say-so, as much as I sometimes wish it were that easy.
- Credit card companies, banks, the phone company, your landlord, your employer, and even the cable guy have likely all had a peep inside your credit file, though none of them could have done it without your say-so.
- Two years later he tried to move to Switzerland but Swiss police quickly expelled him on the say-so, he believed, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- You can't leave the hospital without the say-so of the doctor.