dictation (n.)

  1. an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

    [ Syn: command , bid , bidding ]

  2. speech intended for reproduction in writing

  3. matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage; he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it'

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