ruling
Judge's formal decree
A ruling is an authoritative decision, especially one issued by a judge or official body: The court's ruling struck down the law, We're awaiting a ruling from the committee.
As an adjective, ruling describes whoever holds power: the ruling party, the ruling class.
A ruling passion is a dominant interest or obsession that governs someone's life.
Reasoned decision-making capacity
- decisionSettled course of action
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- verdictOfficial court decision
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
order · injunction · finding · opinion · precedent · adjudication · determination · pronouncement
Authority to direct
- dominationSupreme authority held
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- ascendancyDominant power or influence
predominance · command · subjugation · oppression · tyranny · iron fist · stranglehold · conquest
Supreme in power
- monarchHereditary supreme ruler
- emperorMale ruler of empire
- kingMale crowned ruler
- queenMost powerful chess piece
regent · sultan · czar · dictator · tyrant · autocrat · overlord · potentate
Authority over a state
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- regimeSystem of governance
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
cabinet · ministry · bureaucracy · statecraft · policy · democracy · autocracy · oligarchy
Superior select group
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
oligarchy · plutocracy · establishment · upper class · patrician · privileged · landed · hereditary
judgment
Reasoned decision-making capacity
sentence · order · injunction · finding · opinion · precedent · adjudication · determination · pronouncement · judicial
control
Authority to direct
- dominationSupreme authority held
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- hegemonyDominant group's control
ascendancy · predominance · command · subjugation · oppression · tyranny · iron fist · stranglehold · conquest · empire
sovereign
Supreme in power
queen · regent · sultan · czar · dictator · tyrant · autocrat · overlord · potentate · chieftain
government
Authority over a state
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- regimeSystem of governance
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
senate · cabinet · ministry · bureaucracy · statecraft · policy · democracy · autocracy · oligarchy · theocracy
elite
Superior select group
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- gentryHighborn but not noble
bourgeoisie · oligarchy · plutocracy · establishment · upper class · patrician · privileged · landed · hereditary · peerage
- Final decisionsverdict, judgment, last word, decision, determination
- judgmentsjudgment call, judge, moral judgment, criticize, value judgment
- Determiningdeciding, choosing, judging, concluding, resolving
- judgment callsjudgment, verdict, determination, close call, tough call
- legal documentscontract, affidavit, deed, will, subpoena
- legal orderswarrant, court order, search warrant, arrest warrant, subpoena
rulingsubordinate
One lower in rank
subject · subservient · submissive · powerless · ruled
rulingrare
Seldom found or seen
uncommon · unusual · exceptional · atypical · unique
rulingsuggestion
Idea proposed for consideration
plea · request · petition · appeal · recommendation
- ruling classDominant governing stratum
- court rulingJudicial decision on case
- ruling outEliminating from consideration
- judge's ruling
- ruling classesGroups holding political power
- ruling eliteDominant governing class