residual power

American  

noun

1. power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.

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Etymology

Origin of residual power

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his party’s selection of candidates for state and federal offices.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

To varying degrees, those businesses and others still trade on the residual power of their founders’ personality and vision.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2018

But this is not simply about the residual power of a state attorney general to prosecute in the wake of a presidential pardon.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

Huang chose to sign with ABC in deference to the residual power of network television to alter mass perceptions about race, and he had hoped to portray the Asian-immigrant experience without equivocation or compromise.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

Others disintegrated on their own as the residual power of Diocletian’s sceptre finally failed.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan