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How to sign: issue commands or orders for
Similiar / Same: prescribe, dictate
Categories: bring down, impose, inflict, visit
Within this category: mandate
How to sign: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
"We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate";
Similiar / Same: regularize, regularise, govern, regulate
Categories: decide, determine, make up one's mind
Within this category: standardize, zone
How to sign: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation";
Similiar / Same: ordering, ordination
Categories: arrangement
Within this category: bacteria order, genetic code, genome, series, word order
How to sign: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
"a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there";
Similiar / Same: decree, fiat, edict, rescript
Within this category: bull, consent decree, curfew, decree nisi, imperial decree, legal separation, programma, prohibition, stay
How to sign: a formal association of people with similar interests
"he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today";
Similiar / Same: guild, gild, club, society, lodge
Categories: association
Within this category: athenaeum, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, fraternity, glee club, golf club, hunt, investors club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, service club, slate club, sorority, turnverein, yacht club
