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dictate

🇬🇧 UK/'dikteit/🇺🇸 US
IELTSTOEFLGREC1

Definitions

v.

To give orders or commands; to speak aloud for someone else to write down; to determine or control

命令,口授,支配,决定

n.

An authoritative order or guiding principle

命令,指令,指示

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
dictsay, speak, declare
+
ateto make, having
=dictate

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The manager dictated the new company policy to all staff members.

  • 2.

    I refuse to let circumstances dictate my future decisions.

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