Dictate vs Requisition - What's the difference?

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Dictate is a related term of requisition.

As nouns the difference between dictate and requisition

is that dictate is an order or command while requisition is requisition.

As a verb dictate

is to order, command, control.

dictate

English

Noun

(en noun)

An order or command.

I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

Verb

(dictat)

To order, command, control.

* 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,

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To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.

The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

Derived terms

* dictation * dictator

requisition

English

Noun

(en noun)

A formal request for something.

# A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.

(Kent)

# (legal) A notarial demand for repayment of a debt.

(Wharton)

# (military) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.

(Farrow)

# A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service.

a requisition for clothing, troops, or money

That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.

A call; an invitation; a summons.

a requisition for a public meeting

Derived terms

* requisitionary

Verb

(en verb)

To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies or transport.