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 should need some extreme persuasion - far more than the directors say-so in the accounts - to decide that a company bleeding cash might be turning a profit.
- If a player is to be rested it must be for the good of the team not on the say-so of the national coach.
- They have the authority (and the numbers) to bring the issue to the floor without Quinn's say-so. Tim Judson: Boat Is Sinking for Opponents of Paid Sick Days -- Quinn Should Bail Out Now
- Don't just accept his say-so: find out for yourself.
- He was in charge of the Bolshoi, this man, and no ballerina could get a job without his say-so.
- She makes sure that she has say-so with the storylines as well.
- All of this, of course, is contingent upon your say-so.
- Said his attorney Brian Oxman, "I think it's an important issue for all fathers around the country and around the world that when their child dies they should have a say-so in their child's estate.
- By his own say-so an insignificant umpire could dismiss a world class player by the lift of his finger rather as if a stage carpenter could have told Sir John Gielgud to hop it.
- You think the jury will find him guilty, just on your say-so .
