DICTATE (SOMETHING) TO SOMEONE

dictate (something) to someone: translation

dictate (something) to someone

1. to speak out words to someone who writes them down; to speak words into a recording device to be written down later by someone. •

Walter dictated a letter to his secretary.

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Please come in so I can dictate to you.

2. to lay out or spell out the exact terms of something to someone; to act as a dictator. •

You can't dictate the rules to us.

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Please don't dictate to me.