decree
Other forms: decrees; decreed; decreeing
Look carefully! A decree isn't something you get when you graduate. That one little letter change makes it something else altogether: a legally binding command or the announcement of such a thing.
If you go back far enough, a decree referred to a decision handed down by the Roman emperor. In more modern usage, a divorce decree is the document issued by a court that terminates a marriage. And if you want to go out with someone on a date, but things keep preventing you from having the chance to ask, you could say that fate did not decree it to be so.
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a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)types:consent decreean agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guiltcurfewan order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibiteddecree nisia decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later dateimperial decreea decree issued by a sovereign rulerjudicial separation, legal separationa judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apartprogrammaan edict that has been publicly postedstaya judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is liftedbull, papal bulla formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)ukasean edict of the Russian tsarpragmatic, pragmatic sanctionan imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the landstay of executionan order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of timebanning-orderan order that bans somethingcease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction, restraining order(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
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issue a decree“The King only can decree”types:ordainissue an orderpredestinedecree or determine beforehandwilldecree or ordainreenactenact againtype of:declarestate emphatically and authoritatively
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decide with authority
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