How to use dictate in a sentence. To give orders, or tell someone exactly what they must do, with total authority Wait for the dictate button to turn on and start listening. To say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record. See examples of dictate used in a sentence. Definition of dictate verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down Sheldon writes every day of the week, dictating his novels in the morning [verb noun] everything he dictated was signed and sent out the same day To say (messages, letters, speeches, etc) aloud for mechanical recording or verbatim transcription by another person 2 (tr) to prescribe (commands) authoritatively
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