What does dictated mean?
Definitions for dictated
dic·tat·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
determined, dictated, setadjective
determined or decided upon as by an authority
"date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"
ChatGPT
dictated
Dictated is a term usually used to describe a situation where something is being determined, influenced, or controlled by a particular factor or authority. It can also refer to the act of speaking words aloud to be written down or recorded by someone else.
Webster Dictionary
Dictated
of Dictate
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dictated in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dictated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of dictated in a Sentence
The city of Baltimore should have been prepared with a recovery strategy and been able to recover within much much less time. That time would be dictated by a risk assessment guiding how long they can afford to be down, they shoud have been ready, especially after the previous attack, to recover from ransomware.
The narrative would've been dictated and controlled, really, by members of the Chicago Police Department, their attempts to really control the narrative of what Jason Van Dyke did and how it was so different from what he actually did -- I think that backfired.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan:
This is not being dictated by any political agenda. It looks now like the earliest opportunity will be November, December, and I'm not going to rush it. I don't need to sell any bit of AIB before the election.
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Pigs are not nearly as well-suited to movement over distance as cattle and transporting them, either slaughtered or on the hoof, over hundreds or even tens of kilometres, would have required a monumental effort, this suggests that prescribed contributions were required and that rules dictated that offered pigs must be raised by the feasting participants, accompanying them on their journey, rather than being acquired locally.
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- dettatoItalian
- được chỉ địnhVietnamese
- 口述Chinese
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