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• a  relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation
  obligational authority

• Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.
• For fiscal 1959, there will probably be another boost of at least $2 billion (to $41 billion for actual defense spending), plus a $5 billion boost in the obligational authority .
• It will call for new obligational authority of $103.