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decree

/dih-kree/US // dɪˈkri //UK // (dɪˈkriː) //

法令,政令,法旨,判决

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law: a presidential decree.
    • : Law. a judicial decision or order.
    • : Theology. one of the eternal purposes of God, by which events are foreordained.
  1. 1

    de·creed, de·cree·ing.

    • : to command, ordain, or decide by decree.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmandate, legal order
Forms: decreed, decrees

Examples

  • On March 11, the Zelensky government issued a decree appointing Bensh to the board of Naftogaz.

  • Among the elements of the city’s consent decree was a broadened definition of “use of force,” which required reporting even an arrestee’s complaint that handcuffs had caused physical pain.

  • Now, the veteran officer said, the continued decline in arrest rates and proactive-policing levels are driven more by uncertainty over what is allowed under the city’s new consent decree, even after multiple training sessions.

  • For another thing, Grandpre notes that the consent decree has made it harder for his organization and others to demand specific state-level reforms, such as increasing funding for witness protection in Baltimore.

  • What’s more, the Justice Department has imposed a decree on both agencies for decades that requires them to license songs to all comers.

  • Just two weeks later, the Sultan issued his decree that shariah, Islamic law, would be the new law of the land.

  • Justice Anthony Kennedy has more power than any president or justice in history to decree the law of the land.

  • Morever, every minister must be onfirmed by presidential decree.

  • We need to challenge this top-down decree that all web connections should, by default, be child-friendly.

  • A 2010 decree took it a step further: they will be stricken with a “crime against sacraments.”

  • The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!

  • A royal decree (December 31, 1622) orders the Dominicans in the Philippines not to meddle in affairs of government.

  • Do not heed the Governor-Generalʼs decree, calling you to arms, even though it cost you your lives.

  • The Spanish authorities issued a decree regulating the price of meat and other commodities.

  • How did the Spanish Government fulfil, on its part, the decree spontaneously issued in 1868?