I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
common sense dictates sth (= tells you something very clearly )
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Common sense dictates that you should avoid handling wild animals.
logic dictates sth (= used to say that something will definitely happen because of logic )
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Logic dictates that poorer people will be more affected by the rise in inflation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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The circumstances will dictate how much you can make of it from the standpoint of good video.
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In short, many corporations and data centers have computing security policies and practices that dictate how data must be protected.
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For this reason it is impossible to come up with universal rules dictating how explanations are to be provided.
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The outcome will dictate how one-fifth of mankind relates to a technology many are convinced owns the future.
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Actually, yellow and blue dictate how warm or cool a color is.
largely
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These averages are dictated largely by the very high proportion of volunteers that operate at club level.
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Their decisions largely dictate the use of all resources and they must accept the management responsibility which goes with clinical freedom.
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The whole exercise, indeed, was largely dictated by the very proper wish to see standards of education rise.
to
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I will not be dictated to by a housekeeper.
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Rory had fumed, unaccustomed to being dictated to, but his will had proved the stronger.
■ NOUN
action
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As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester, but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483.
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Watching hockey FoxTrax makes it seem you can dictate the action .
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He hadn't done a bad job of dictating her actions so far but that didn't mean it had to continue.
choice
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This consideration had dictated his choice of nephew.
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The cuts dictate the choice of ministers.
circumstances
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However, if circumstances dictate using the post then make the best of it by: 1.
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He should have felt as tired and inadequate as his age and circumstances dictated , but he did not.
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The circumstances will dictate how much you can make of it from the standpoint of good video.
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The pattern seems to be, and fast changing circumstances dictate this more than anything, not to dwell on problems.
consideration
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Apart from not knowing how long to sub-let the space for, there are other considerations that dictate a company's strategy.
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Tax considerations should not dictate investment judgment.
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However, tactical considerations may dictate that some conditions and definition terms are omitted from the vendors' draft of the heads.
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This simple consideration dictates the design of the synthetic oligonucleotides.
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This consideration had dictated his choice of nephew.
kind
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In one way, the association with Volvo dictated the kind of car that the Safrane is.
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The intended use would dictate the kind of pack to be purchased.
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These beliefs about what low attainers can not do dictate and reflect the kind of learning experience these pupils have.
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A rigorous syllabus and lots of tests dictate the kind of work done.
law
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That brings us back to Condorcet's remark that the general laws dictating the phenomena of the universe are necessary and constant.
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Consequently, those laws tend to dictate impartial treatment and equal service to all members of the targeted group.
letter
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Alternatively, you can dictate your letter to us over the telephone.
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The pastor called in his secretary and dictated a letter to Scott saying he and the elders would meet him.
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Miss Hinkle was always trying to make me an office magnate, dictating letters and answering telephone calls.
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I dictated a resignation letter to my secretary.
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It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt.
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The moment Gerald got back to Hull he dictated a letter to the Foreign Office.
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Send to Alternatively, you can dictate your letter to us over the telephone.
market
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The terms attached to such loans are dictated by market conditions and the usual criteria of security, creditworthiness and risk.
need
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The purchaser's plans may be commercially sensitive, dictating the need to first approach targets anonymously.
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These transient colonialists dictated their needs , and the local populations in general complied.
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At first the growth of a child is dictated by biological needs .
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This is usually dictated by the need for a flat area immediately next to the house to act as a sheltered sun trap.
pace
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Alex's task of dictating the pace was quite as difficult as Michael's of delivering the lines.
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One of the beauties of Springs is that you dictate the pace .
policy
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This basic premise also dictated Edward's policy elsewhere.
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Good managers know that fear can not be allowed to dictate organizational policy .
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The West supported him, gave him money, and dictated his economic policies .
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It was therefore Charles who could dictate policy and law in most respects.
sense
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I should have thought that good sense would dictate that some one who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility.
■ VERB
allow
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Ultimately, however, market forces should not be allowed to dictate the extent of regulation.
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He said he has missed the up-tempo pace he was allowed to dictate .
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Licence to allow another person to dictate the rising of the sun, the seasons of the moon?
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Good managers know that fear can not be allowed to dictate organizational policy.
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We have lost the initiative and allowed our opponents to dictate the subject - even the rules - of the debate.
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During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.
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She had allowed him to dictate what happened, yet now she wanted more.
let
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Ellen wanted none of it so let her dictate her terms.
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It made Bernice jealous, but she would never let that dictate her behaviour.
seem
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That too the baby seemed to dictate .
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Watching hockey FoxTrax makes it seem you can dictate the action.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fashion designers no longer dictate skirt lengths.
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She refused to be dictated to by some stupid official in Washington.
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The amount of funds we receive dictates what we can do.
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Your parents have no right to dictate how you should spend your money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All or some of the labels can be dictated or, for beginning students, the labels may simply be copied.
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At least once a week we were tested on our ability to copy correctly a literary passage dictated to us.
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Built between 1283 and 1289, the castle's shape is dictated by the very rock on which it stands.
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Milton had two or was it three daughters and they wrote down his poems as he dictated.
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Previously, the Constitution dictated that the President was head of the army.
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The contracts are dictated by the HMOs, and that makes for some very ragged edges.
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The need to survive, which always dictates the moral standards of society, once more underlined the role of the women.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
follow
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Though if we did follow the dictates of the market-place, that's where we'd be heading, fast.
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But at least Hayling was free to follow the dictates of his large and sometimes cumbersome political conscience.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The city's policy clearly violates the dictates of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Human beings are going to resist cultural dictates that are too inconsistent with their innate desires.
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When I was very young, the things I wanted to do were not permitted by social dictates.