dictation
About 0.95 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
- noun An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
- noun The act of ordering or commanding.
- noun Orders given in an overbearing manner.
His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Similar words
command bidding bid indoctrination delivered initiation dictate issuance diktat dictates
Often followed by
of and from in to by or is test
Word family
dictations
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