Authority and Zone

Authority

Authority noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

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Zone and authority are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Zone" instead a noun "Authority".

Zone noun - A broad geographical area.

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Authority and zone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authority" instead a noun "Zone".

Nearby Words: zoned, zoning, zonal

good	good authority	good zone
full	full authority	full zone
total	total authority	total zone
single	single authority	single zone
Other adjectives: actual, real, secret, new, major, final, last, central, local.

Each allied occupation authority was authorised to conduct trials in its own zone of responsibility.

Source: Useful Notes / The Holocaust
John Rabe, on the other side of the world, was a diabetic Siemens employee who managed to get a section of Nanjing turned into a safe zone for Chinese civilians during the Japanese occupation with no authority, no government backing, and no military force.

Source: Badass Bureaucrat
In another Hulk related example, during World War Hulk Tony Stark gives his second in command the authority to send the whole of Manhattan into the Negative Zone if things with the Hulk get out of hand.

Source: Godzilla Threshold

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