What is another word for fiat?

Pronunciation: [fˈiːət] (IPA)

The word "fiat" is often used to describe a formal authorization or decree, often issued by a person in a position of authority. What makes synonyms for this word important is the ability to convey the same meaning without overusing the term "fiat". Some synonyms for "fiat" include: edict, proclamation, mandate, order, command, decree, pronouncement and directive. Each of these words can be used in place of "fiat" and still convey the same sense of an official statement, order or proclamation. Using synonyms also adds variety to your writing, making your message more interesting to the reader.

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What are the opposite words for fiat?

Fiat refers to an authoritative decree or an order given by someone in power. Antonyms for the word fiat could be acquiescence, dissent, or refusal. Acquiescence implies complying with a request or proposal without opposition, while dissent denotes disagreement or opposition to something. Refusal refers to the act of declining or denying a request or command. Other antonyms for fiat include autonomy, collaboration, and democracy. Autonomy suggests the freedom or independence to make decisions without external control, while collaboration denotes working together. Democracy, on the other hand, signifies a system of government that involves decision-making by the people collectively.

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Usage examples for Fiat

The fiat not only doomed Bakuma to a terrible death at the third blooming of the moon, but from that very instant the tabu came into force; for being thus accursed by the possession of two sounds of the sacred name, she was deemed unholy.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
Until recent days he had also directed, with a dictator's fiat power, most of the affairs of the countryside.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
But when Jerrold's fiat went forth, "We don't want Rubens on Punch" young Gilbert turned his attention to the newly-started "Illustrated London News," on which his services were warmly welcomed and continuously employed, with such brilliant results to itself and to the black-and-white art in England.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann

Famous quotes with Fiat

  • Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
    Arthur Levitt
  • A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
    Ron Paul
  • Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
    Carroll Quigley
  • If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
    John McPhee
  • ..As Salmanezer and Nebuchadnezzar had formerly carried the Jews to Babylon, so now from all the frontier provinces of the new kingdom (of Armenia) - from Corduene, Adiabene, Assyria,Cilicia,Cappadocia - the inhabitants, especially the Greek or half-Greek citizens of the towns, were compelled to settle with their whole goods and chattels in the new capital, one of those gigantic cities proclaiming rather the nothingness of the people than the greatness of the rulers, which sprang up in the countries of the Euphrates on every change in the supreme sovereignty at the fiat of the new grant Sultan. the new 'city of Tigranes", Tigranocerta, situated in in the most southern province of Armenia, not far from the Mesopotamian frontier, was a city like Nineveh and Babylon, with walls fifty yards high, and the appendages of palace, garden and park that were appropriate to sultanism In other respects, too, the new great king proved faithful to his part. As amidst the perpetual childhood of the East the childlike conceptions of kings with real crowns on their heads have never disappeared, Tigranes, when he showed himself in public, appeared in the state and costume of a successor of Darius and Xerxes, with the purple fagtan, the half white half-purple tunic, the long plaited trousers, the high turban, and the royal diadem - attended moreover and served in slavish fashion, wherever he went or stoood, by four "kings."
    Theodor Mommsen

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