dominance

Noun

• the power or right to give orders or make decisions
  • he has the authority to issue warrants
    
  • deputies are given authorization to make arrests
    
  • a place of potency in the state
    

• the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

• the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
  • her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
    

• superior development of one side of the body

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  authority , authorization , authorisation , potency , say-so , ascendance , ascendence , ascendancy , ascendency , control , laterality