Synonym: advise, charge, demand, direct, instruct, order, recommend, rule, suggest. Antonym: obey, submit. Similar words: predict, verdict, prediction, jurisdiction, dictionary order, indicate, dedicate, state. Meaning: [dɪk'teɪt] 
n. 1. an authoritative rule 2. a guiding principle. v. 1. issue commands or orders for 2. say out loud for the purpose of recording 3. rule as a dictator.
n. 1. an authoritative rule 2. a guiding principle. v. 1. issue commands or orders for 2. say out loud for the purpose of recording 3. rule as a dictator. 
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151 Good manners also dictate that you handle your mail promptly and courteously.
152 And while he is right that Qaddafi poses no threat to America, circumstances may very well dictate action.
153 That is trivial looks penurious of looking at be pressed by his under dictate woman.
154 The price of freedom may be a weaker and less efficient state than a conventional utilitarian cost-benefit analysis would dictate.
155 Autocratic leaders tend to make unilateral decisions, dictate work methods.
156 He had warned the West against trying to dictate to the Soviet Union.
157 It's not uncommon for the male head of household to dictate a woman's vote – but neither is it universal.
158 Otherwise, you have an oligopoly or cartels where the big operators act in concert (whether by design or by happenstance) to dictate prices, working conditions, etc.
159 Textile chemicals and dyes are suffering because over-supply leaves those at the end of the value chains (consumers and brands) with the power to dictate prices.
160 These communication rules, which are quite intricate, dictate what a company can and cannot say once its I. P. O. document, known as a registration statement, is filed with the S. E.
161 Scavenger hunts can be as simple or involved as circumstances dictate.
161 Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
162 Forty-seven percent of travelers are allowing their budgets to dictate where they go, yet no major website out there asks, how much do you want to spend?
163 The PMBOK does not dictate that all thirty-nine processes in the 2000 version or forty-four processes in the 2004 version must be used in all projects.
164 Maybe your circumstances didn't allow you to be choosey, but yesterday doesn't always dictate today.
165 No longer will power be held by the privileged few who dictate the way of the world.
166 What gives them the right to dictate to us what we should eat?
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