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POWER OF ATTORNEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor's agent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("power of attorney" is a kind of...):
instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power of attorney"):
stock power (a power of attorney document to transfer ownership of a registered security from the owner to another party)
proxy (a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting)
