fiat

Converse of object

• issue: He also issued a fiat ordering state employees to break the Ramadan fast and restricted the number of pilgrims performing the Hajj.
• see: You've never seen a fiat like this on the streets.

Converse of subject

• create: For a nation cannot simply be created by bureaucratic fiat.

Adjective modifier

• divine: There is an affirmation of divine fiat, or instantaneous creation.
• administrative: Secondly, no homeowner could claim private right to a location value enhanced by public administrative fiat.
• ministerial: As a liberal, I fear that some of our rights could thus be curtailed by ministerial fiat.
• executive: Their grievances against Boyer's government included corruption, nepotism, suppression of free expression, and rule by executive fiat.
• imperial: Since the end of colonialism, those rules cannot be made imperial fiat.
• legislative: Factional reserve lending can be abolished by legislative fiat.

Modifies a noun

• currency: In the short run, the issuer of a fiat reserve currency can accrue great economic benefits.
• collapse: In the unlikely event of a fiat collapse, GB has sold our nation's insurance at a pittance.
• money: Gold is a better store of value than fiat money over the long term.
• system: Central bankers will only resort to positive real rates when faced with meltdown of the international fiat currency system.
• punto: I drive a '94 fiat punto 1.2 liter injection.
• panda: Its a Seat Marbella which is just a fiat panda really.

Noun used with modifier

• government: He will have surprised his audience by his claim that no social improvement can be achieved purely by government fiat.
• state: Militant reformers would suppress antiquities looting by international treaty, court order, state fiat, and the moral artillery of shame and guilt.

Possessives

• money: It was ' fiat ' money, money made legal tender by Act of Congress.