apparent authority
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Authority that a principal, by conduct, leads a third party reasonably to believe an agent possesses.
Though the manager lacked actual authority, his apparent authority bound the company to the supply contract.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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