
1) Address a steno 2) An authoritative rule 3) Be authoritative 4) Call the shots 5) Do an office job 6) Give orders 7) Issue commands 8) Issue commands or orders for 9) Lay down the law 10) Lay down the law to 11) Not just bargain 12) Prescribe 13) Prescript 14) Read out for typist 15) Rule 16) Rule as a dictator
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1) Call all the shots 2) Command 3) Control 4) Decree 5) Fiat 6) Oppress 7) Ordain 8) Order 9) Prescribe 10) Require 11) Ruling 12) Tyrannise 13) Tyrannize
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- an authoritative rule
- a guiding principle
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• (v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). • (v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another. • (v. t.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience;...
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Dic'tate intransitive verb 1. To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). « Who presumed to
dictate to the sovereign.»
Macaulay. 2. To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another. « Sylla could not skill...
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Dic'tate noun [ Latin
dictatum . See
Dictate ,
transitive verb ] A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the
dictates of your conscience; the
dictates of the ...
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Dic'tate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Dictated ;
present participle & verbal noun Dictating .] [ Latin
dictatus , past participle of
dictare , freq. of
dicere to say. See
Diction , and confer...
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[
n] - an authoritative rule 2. [n] - a guiding principle 3. [v] - rule as a dictator 4. [v] - say out loud for the purpose of recording
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dictate 1. To put into words that are to be written down; to utter, pronounce, or read aloud to a person (something which he/she is to write). 2. To prescribe (a course or object of action); to lay down authoritatively; to order, or command in express terms. 3. To use or practice dictation; to lay down the law, to give orders.
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noun a guiding principle; `the dictates of reason`
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determine, order, or control how something is done
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