Issue commands or orders for.

synonyms: dictate, order.

Roget 693: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle, take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.    superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate^†; matronize^†; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule etc. (command) 737; have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.    ... show more

Roget 695: advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice [Fr.]; suggest, prompt, submonish^†, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort etc. (persuade) 615.    enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon etc. (request) 765; dictate.    expostulate etc. (dissuade) 616; admonish etc. (warn) 668.    advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.    confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.    ... show more

Roget 741: command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders.    prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.    bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on etc. (compel) 744.    claim, lay claim to, revendicate^†, reclaim.    cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.    issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order etc. n.; give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command etc. (authority) 737; remand.    be ordered &c.; receive an order etc. n.. ... show more

Roget 924: be due etc. adj.. to, be the due etc. n.. of; have right to, have title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a claim upon; belong to etc. (property) 780.    deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve.    demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate^†, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.    give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize etc. 760; sanctify, legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot.    give every one his due etc. 922; pay one's dues; have one's due, have one's rights.    use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution.    ... show more

Roget 926: be the duty of; be incumbent etc. adj.. on, be responsible etc. adj.; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of.    take upon oneself etc. (promise) 768; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility etc. n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.    impose a duty, etc. n.; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige.    enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty etc. (be virtuous) 944.    be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.    ... show more

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Dutch: voorschrijven, decreteren, verordenen, verordineren

medicine Order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription.