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Meanings of dictate in English

Portuguese
ditar
Catalan
manar
Spanish
mandar

Issue commands or orders for.

ditar
Usage of dictate in English
1
The methods of the past are being used to dictate our future.
The Guardian
2
It used that role to dictate terms, according to the unsecured creditors.
Reuters
3
I'm not going to let convention dictate the truth in my heart.
The notorious scoundrel
4
But she said Leno would abide by whatever current union rules dictate.
Reuters
5
They let Australia dictate the state of play from start to finish.
The Guardian
6
Father takes along a stenographer when he wants to dictate en route.
The new yorker
7
One character apparently controls far too many surrogates than logic would dictate.
Reuters
8
But we won't allow Johnson to dictate the terms, he will say.
Reuters
9
Now, the new coronavirus and the people it affects dictate his time.
Reuters
10
Suddenly the TNRL want to dictate terms, sacking Woolf among other things.
Radio NZ
11
Company idylls and structure no longer fully dictate how people move around.
BBC
12
CAO points rather than student aptitude came to dictate choice of careers.
The Irish Times
13
They come at you really hard and try to dictate the play.
Reuters
14
You have no right to dictate what property of others goes where.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
15
You know not to let me dictate the pace or the space.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
16
Elizabeth was in fact in a position to dictate her own terms.
England under the Tudors
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Dictate through the time
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Common
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Common
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