| 单词 | decree |
| 释义 | decree (once / 237 pages) nv 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. WORD FAMILYdecree: decreed, decreeing, decrees USAGE EXAMPLESThis month its 31 million people lurched a big step closer to that breaking point, thanks to another senseless decree by its autocratic populist government. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) The government in November published a draft decree “to prevent further reduction” of the National Fund. Wall Street Journal(Dec 24, 2016) Perhaps this is the wisdom of grandparents, who lived in areas where wine was consumed daily but the selection was meager and decreed by custom. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1n a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) Syn|Hypo|Hyper edict, fiat, order, rescript consent decree an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt curfewan order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited decree nisia decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date imperial decreea decree issued by a sovereign ruler judicial separation, legal separationa judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart programmaan edict that has been publicly posted ban, prohibition, proscriptiona decree that prohibits something staya judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted bull, papal bulla formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) ukasean edict of the Russian tsar pragmatic, pragmatic sanctionan imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land stay of executionan order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time banning-orderan order that bans something cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment, injunction(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity interdict, interdictiona court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity act, enactment a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body 2v issue a decree The King only can decree Hypo|Hyper ordain issue an order enact, ordainorder by virtue of superior authority; decree predestinedecree or determine beforehand willdecree or ordain designate, destine, doom, fatedecree or designate beforehand reenactenact again legislate, passmake laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation declare state emphatically and authoritatively 3v decide with authority The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed Syn|Hypo|Hyper rule override, overrule, overthrow, overturn, reverse rule against rule in, rule outinclude or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules decide, determine, make up one's mind reach, make, or come to a decision about something |
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