plenary power 全权专业词汇详解

plenary power 全权

Word of the Day for Saturday May 4, 2002:

adj.

充分的, 完全的; 绝对的`, 无限制的

全体出席的; 有全权的;【律】正式的

plenary power [authority]

全权

a plenary meeting [session]

全体会议, 大会

plenary PLEE-nuh-ree; PLEN-uh-ree, adjective:

1. Full in all respects; complete; absolute; as, plenary authority.

2. Fully attended by all qualified members.

Judges like to quote a 1936 Supreme Court opinion that spoke of "the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the Federal Government in the field of international relations."

--"Like Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh," New York Times, November 6, 1988

Tito called a plenary session of the Central Committee.

--Milovan Djilas, Fall of the New Class

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Plenary comes from Late Latin plenarius, from Latin plenus, "full." It is related to plenty.

Fully attended by all qualified members: