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fiat
/ˈfaɪæt/
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What does fiat mean?
noun
- An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
- A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
More meanings (7)
noun
- An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
- (Pertaining to) fiat currency.
- An automobile manufactured by the Italian firm Fiat S.p.A.
- Alternative form of Fiat.
verb
- To make (something) happen.
- To issue a fiat.
proper noun
- Initialism of fix it again Tony.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfaɪæt/
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"Let there be light," is as imperative now as when the fiat went forth at the dawn of creation.
“Quod crebro videt, non miratur, etiamsi, cur fiat, nescit. Quod ante non vidit, id, si evenerit, ostentum esse censet.”
More book examples (3)
It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death.
Even the much dreaded old master, whose merciless fiat had brought me from Tuckahoe, gradually, to my mind, parted with his terrors.
Geology has disproved the old popular belief that the universe was brought into being as it now exists by a single fiat.