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Decree Court Legally Binding Command Decision Issued Dɪ'Kriː

Front decree
Pron [dɪ'kriː]
Back 【decree】
v.命令;决定
The city government decreed that all dogs must be licensed.
市政府颁令所有的狗都必须有牌照。
Vocab
decreea legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

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.

All forms of 'decree' will appear on average once every 236 pages.
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