Synonyms for fiat
ˈfi ɑt, -æt; ˈfaɪ ət, -ætfi·at

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1. decree, edict, fiat, order, rescriptnoun

   a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

   "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"

   Synonyms:
   society, social club, rewrite, order of magnitude, revision, revise, rescript, edict, gild, club, parliamentary law, ordination, ordering, purchase order, parliamentary procedure, guild, rules of order, orderliness, order, lodge, decree, monastic order, revisal

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1. fiatnoun

   Synonyms:
   decree, order, ordinance, command

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1. fiatnoun

   Synonyms:
   order, decree, mandate, edict, command

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1. List of paraphrases for "fiat":

   fiata, edison

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1. Paul Ryan:

   While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will, his proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected. No president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.

2. England Governor Andrew:

   The whole question of people having assurance that their payments will be made in something with stable value ... ultimately links bank to what we call fiat currency, which has a link to the state.

3. John Bercow:

   It is not typical, it is not standard. It is one of the longest for decades and it represents not just in the minds of some colleagues but huge numbers of people outside, an act of executive fiat.

4. Alan Gottlieb:

   This is an abuse of power by the Massachusetts attorney general, it is no different than President Obama’s illegal anti-gun executive orders. If these firearms were legal yesterday, they are legal today, Alan Gottlieb said in an email to FoxNews.com. This ban on semi-auto firearms must be stopped before gun prohibitionists in other states try to enact similar bans by fiat, Alan Gottlieb said. The debate is the latest example of the long-running argument between Second Amendment purists and gun control advocates about whether new firearms laws make people safer. Indeed, the fact that Massachusetts has so few murders committed using assault weapons could be seen as evidence that the original ban was successful. The enforcement notice from the attorney general says a weapon is considered a copy or duplicate if its internal operating system is the same as those of a specifically-banned weapon or if the gun has key functional components that are interchangeable with those of a banned weapon. Such weapons would include copies of the Colt AR-15 and the Kalishnikov AK-47, which are both prohibited by the state's assault weapons ban. Healey's office claims gun makers produce and sell what they call.

5. Doug Rand:

   This is an end run around Congress to achieve through executive fiat what the administration cannot get through Congress.