ostensible

Apparent; visible; exhibited.

Ostensible authority is power that a principal, either by design or through the absence of ordinary care, permits others to believe his or her agent possesses.

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ostensible adjective able to be seen, apparent, appearing, assumable, assumed, avowed, believable, claimed, clear, colorable, conjecturable, credible, deceiving, declared, deluding, delusional, delusive, delusory, evident, explicit, express, fictus, illusional, illusive, illusory, indubitable, likely, manifest, misleading, noticeable, observable, obvious, outward, overt, patent, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plausible, pretended, professed, purported, reasonable, seeable, seeming, self-evident, shown, simulatus, so-called, specious, supposable, supposed, surface, surmisable, visible

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See also: apparent, circumstantial, colorable, evident, manifest, naked, overt, patent, perceptible, plausible, presumptive, probable, purported, putative, specious