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Definition
issue commands or orders
- Although Kroc could be dictatorial, he also listened carefully to his franchisees' ideas and complaints.p. 95.8
- Each supervisor is like a little dictator in his or her section of the plant, largely free to boss, fire, berate, or reassign workers.p. 176.0
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- They were also discreet, in keeping with the dictates of their trade.p. 127.7
- He was a prominent local rancher, and I'd called him to learn how development pressures and the dictates of the fast food industry were affecting the area's cattle business.p. 133.1
- An economic system promising freedom has too often become a means of denying it, as the narrow dictates of the market gain precedence over more important democratic values.p. 261.8
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