Giving orders & commands
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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- about
- about turn! idiom
- all-points bulletin
- and don't you forget it idiom
- ask
- behest
- bid
- boss
- boss someone around phrasal verb
- bossily
- bossiness
- bossy
- bossyboots
- call
- call for someone phrasal verb
- call someone/something off phrasal verb
- can
- chain of command
- charge
- command
- commanding
- crack
- crack the whip idiom
- decree
- defy
- demand
- detail
- dictate
- dictate to someone phrasal verb
- direct
- dun
- dun someone for something
- enjoin
- exact
- exaction
- expect
- expect something from someone
- forget
- give someone an instruction
- harry
- heel
- importunate
- instruct
- lay
- lay down the law idiom
- lay something down phrasal verb
- mandate
- officious
- officiously
- officiousness
- ordain
- order
- order someone around phrasal verb
- overbearing
- overbearingly
- prescribe
- prescribed
- prescription
- prescriptive
- prescriptively
- push
- push someone around phrasal verb
- put
- put something on phrasal verb
- self-ordained
- shove
- shove someone around phrasal verb
- sic
- sic someone/something on someone phrasal verb
- steamroller
- stick
- stick out for something phrasal verb
- stipulate
- summons
- task
- tasking
- under
- will
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to be less important or in a weaker position than someone else
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